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Building Age-Friendly Cities (Houses of Parliament Library POST Note PN 539)

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) note on “Creating age friendly cities” considers the challenges involved in making cities more “age-friendly”. It examines how housing, transport and outdoor spaces etc. might be re-designed to promote independence … Continue reading →

Posted in Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Green Space, Access to Urban Green Spaces, Age Friendly Homes, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Cities (WHO), Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, Age-Friendly Communities, Ageing Population, Architecture and Design Scotland, Attitudes to Ageing, Attitudes to Older People, BBC Health News, BBC Scotland News, Building Age-Friendly Cities (POST Note PN 539), Built Environment, Challenges in Creation of Age-Friendly Cities, Crichton Trust, Dumfries and Galloway Care Campus Project (Crichton Trust), Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities, Global Age Friendly Cities (WHO), Green Spaces, Health Benefits of Green Space, Houses of Parliament, Infrastructure Costs, Local Planning, Nuffield Foundation Flowers Fellowship, Outdoor Spaces, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Physical Environment, POST: Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, Public Transport, Transport, Transport and Mobility, Transportation Infrastructure, Urban Green Space and Trees | Leave a comment

More on the Avoidable Costs of Lifestyle Risk Factors (BBC News / PHE / Lancet)

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England (PHE) has estimated that health problems associated with unhealthy lifestyle practices – such as poor diet, obesity, physical inactivity, drinking and smoking – cost the NHS in England approximately £11 billion per year. A new approach … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 2016 Local Health Profiles, Access to Green Spaces, Access to Rural Green Spaces, Access to Urban Green Spaces, Adult Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Allotment and Gardening Projects, Anti-Obesogenic Environments, Basic Cookery Skills (Healthy Eating), BBC Health News, Behavioural Risk Factors, Chris Askew: Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, Chronic Bronchitis, Commissioning for Maximum Value, Commissioning for Outcomes, Commissioning for Value, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Garden (Fleetwood), Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Deprived Communities, Determinants of Health, Diabetes Epidemic, Diabetes Prevention, Diabetes Prevention Services, Dr Mark Spencer: Mount View Practice (Healthier Fleetwood Project), Dr Rebecca Wagstaff: PHE, Exercise, Exercise Regimens, Fast Food, Fast Food Consumption, Fast Food Outlets, Fast-Food-Free Zones, Fast-Food-Free Zones (Around Schools), Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Fleetwood, Fleetwood Town Football Club, Garden Areas, Gardening, Gardens and Health, Green Spaces, Health and Housing, Health Benefits of Green Space, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthier Fleetwood (Case Study), Healthier Fleetwood Project, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Eating, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, Healthy New Towns, Healthy New Towns Programme, Healthy Weight, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Improving Local Public Health, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Lancashire, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Intervention Programmes, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Lifestyle Weight Management, Local Action on Reducing Health Inequalities, Local Green Spaces, Local Health and Wellbeing, Local Health: Public Health England, Local Public Health, Local Public Health Services, Maintaining Healthy Weight and Preventing Excess Weight Gain Among Children and Adults, Manifesto for a Healthy and Health-Creating Society (Lancet), Obesity, Obesity - Burden of Ill-Health Links, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesogenic Environments, Office of National Statistics (ONS), Parks and Gardens, PHE: Public Health England, Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Activity Prescriptions, Physical Exercise, Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes, Preventing and Managing Demand, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention Approaches, Professor Jonathan Valabhji: National Clinical Director for Obesity and Diabetes at NHS England, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Redesigning Local Healthcare Systems, Reducing Demand (Treatment and Recovery), Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Health Inequalities, Risk Factors, Smoking-Related Bronchitis, Social Determinants of Health (SDH), Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Epidemiology, Social Prescribing, Social Wellbeing, Societal Determinants of Health, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Tithebarn (Lancashire), Type 2 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, Wasted Resources, Weight Management, Wellbeing, Willow Garden Project, Willow Garden Project (Fleetwood), Y-Active Project, York Health Economics Consortium | Leave a comment

NHS Involvement in Health Housing / Healthy New Towns (BBC News / NHS England / King’s Fund)

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Ten new housing developments in England will be designed with an eye to encouraging healthy and independent living, obesity reduction and dementia friendly signage. Full Text Link Reference NHS to help create ‘healthy new towns’. London: BBC Health News, … Continue reading →

Heatwave Plan for England 2014 (Public Health England)

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England has issued guidance on the potential health effects of hot weather, for the public and for health and social care professionals. The Heatwave Plan for England tackles the avoidable effects on health of severe heat in … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Aeroallergens (Pollen), Algal Blooms, At-Risk Groups, Built Infrastructure for Older People in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC), Carbon Monoxide, Care Homes, Caring for older people, Chronic and Severe Illness, Cool Environments With Green Spaces, Cooling Hospital Estates and Care Homes, Dehydration, Design and Delivery of Robust Hospital Environments in a Changing Climate (De2RHECC), Dust-Related Problems, Effects on Health of Severe Heat, Electrolyte Imbalance, EuroHEAT Project, Euroheat: Improving Public Health Responses to Extreme Weather / Heatwaves, Extreme Events Section: PHE’s Centre for Radiation Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Green Infrastructure Partnership, Hay Fever, Health Benefits of Green Space, Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK, Health Issues Related to Heatwaves, Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Health Advice During Ramadan, Heat Oedema, Heat Syncope, Heat-Health Action Plan Guidance, Heat-Health Watch Alert System, Heat-Health Watch System, Heat-Related Illnesses, Heatstroke, Heatwave Advice and Mass Gatherings, Heatwave Alert Service (aka Heat-Health Watch), Heatwave and Summer Preparedness, Heatwave Plan for England 2014, Heatwaves and Geography, High Temperatures: Air Quality and Health, High-Risk Groups, Hot Weather, Information on Air Quality, Insulating Homes, Insulation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Level 2 Heatwave Alert, Level 3 Heatwave Alert, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Health Resilience Partnerships, Local Resilience Forums, Loss of Electrolytes, Medications Likely to Provoke or Increase Severity of Heatstroke, Met Office Heatwave Warnings, National Adaptation Programme (NAP), National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), Nitrogen Dioxide, Nursing Older People, Older People, Ozone, Particulate Matter, PHE Sunsense Guidance, PHE: Public Health England, Public Health England (PHE), Ramadan, Reducing Risks Before a Heatwave, Residential Care Homes, Seasonal Excess Deaths, Severe Heat, Sulphur Dioxide, Supporting Vulnerable People in a Heatwave, Thermoregulation, Threshold Temperatures, Trees, Trigger Temperatures, Typical Cascade of Heatwave Alerts, UK CCRA: UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2012, UK-AIR, Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation, Urban Green Space and Trees, Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect, Urban Heat Islands, Ventilation, Voluntary and Community Sector, Vulnerable Older People, WHO Heat-Health Action Plans | Leave a comment

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