Wednesday 12 November,
from 9.30am, Wilson Room, Portcullis House
MPs will explore how older people with long-term health
conditions can become more active and reduce the risk of
developing multiple conditions, and how health, social care and
volunteer services can support them to manage their own
health.
A first panel of witnesses from charities and the social care
sector will explain to MPs the opportunities for physical
activity to transform health and social care for older people and
reduce inactivity. MPs will also explore the potential for
technology to support activity and how we can ensure that the
shift to digital does not leave older people behind.
There will also be questions about how social prescribing by GPs
could be adopted more widely and how collaboration between
volunteer services and the NHS could be encouraged. Social
prescribing can involve GPs referring older people to community
activities, befriending services, and peer networks that help
keep their body and minds active.
A second panel of expert witnesses will tell the cross-party
Committee about the health service's ability to identify frailty
in older people, and how exercise can reduce the risk of
developing health conditions such as dementia or experiencing a
fall.
Witnesses from 9.30am:
- Adam Blaze, Chief Executive, Activity Alliance
- Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive, Care
England
- Emma Hutchins, Physical Activity and Health Influencing
Manager, Richmond Group of Charities
From 10.30am:
- Professor Elizabeth Orton, Professor of Public Health,
University of Nottingham
- Professor Dawn Skelton, Professor of Ageing and Health,
Glasgow Caledonian University
- Professor Chris Todd, Deputy-Director, NIHR Policy Research
Unit in Healthy Ageing
