A Community in Conversation: Have your say on Healthy ageing in Scotland

A Community in Conversation: Have your say on physical activity, healthy ageing, and targeting inequalities in Scotland.

On behalf of the Lifelong Physical AcTivity TArgetting INequalities (ATTAIN) research network, the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow would like to invite you to a one-day workshop exploring physical activity, healthy ageing and targeting inequalities in Scotland.

The ATTAIN network is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Birmingham, University of Glasgow, Sheffield Hallam University and Cardiff Metropolitan University. Our aim is to develop a Transformative Network for Healthy Ageing and we see you as an important and valuable contributor to this conversation.

We’d love for you to attend on Wednesday 15th May at The Deep End at Govanhill Baths (10am to 4pm)

The day will be a series of information sharing sessions and interactive workshops.

To confirm your attendance, please sign up via Eventbrite. We have a limited number of spaces so please sign up by Tuesday 7th May.

If you would like any further information please email: attain@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Event Background:

We’re living longer but we’re not living longer in good health

The background to the work is that while life expectancy in the UK has continued to increase year on year, healthy life expectancy has not improved. In addition, there are differences in life expectancy between populations and this is largely driven by social, ethnic, and geographical inequalities. We know that people living in areas of socially deprived and ethnic minority communities spend fewer years in good health than others. Physical activity (or ‘movement’) plays a key role in a healthy life, and this is the area of interest for the work of ATTAIN.

Making movement part of our everyday lives – for everyone

Physical activity includes sport, but also hobbies like gardening, daily movement such as housework, and artistic movement like dance. We would like to explore further the challenges that communities face in achieving a physically active lifestyle and understand what needs to happen to rebalance this shift and better support healthy ageing in socially deprived and ethnic minority communities.

This event is about developing understanding, capacity and working networks to bring together stakeholders to share knowledge.

A UK-wide initiative

This is the final workshop in a series of events that have been held in each of the four cities and three nations in the ATTAIN network. In Glasgow we want focus on what’s happening in Scotland to promote physical activity, healthy ageing and target inequalities, where there might be gaps and where we might be able to make changes. We want to showcase work that is already happening in Glasgow and the surrounding areas, as well as hearing from other valued members of the community who are interested in physical activity. We believe that research and communities need to come closer to together, which is what we are trying to achieve through ATTAIN.The outcomes of the Glasgow event will help to highlight the similarities and differences in the physical activity challenges faced across the UK and identify priorities for the ATTAIN network going forward. You can find more about ATTAIN here: https://www.attainnetwork.org.uk

An event for everyone We would like to invite older people along with community workers, policymakers in public health, local authorities, social care, community services, physical activity practitioners and academics/researchers.