Welcome Older People’s Assembly 30 October 2018 1
Agenda • 1:30pm: Registration, refreshments and Stalls • 2:00pm: Welcome • 2:05pm: Update from the Older People’s Champion • 2:20pm: Presentations: “Preparing for Winter” • 3:05pm: Questions & Answers and Discussions • 3:20pm: Agenda planning for future Assemblies • 3:30pm: Close 2
Reporting issues and service requests • Council Main Switchboard and out-of-hours service: 01895 250111 • Key Contact Numbers - inside back cover of Hillingdon People • Do it online 24/7 at www.hillingdon.gov.uk 3
Cllr Ray Puddifoot Older People’s Champion
Staying Social and Active Over the Winter Priscilla Simpson Sport and Physical Activity Team Manager
Why does it matter? • Darker days and nights, colder weather • Fear of falls • Fear of hypothermia • Less likely to go out • Increased feeling of being lonely • Seasonal Affective Disorder
Staying warm, staying active, staying social
Planning for it... • planning for a winter that is still active and fun • Develop a schedule, invite friends • It will be different for every person • Evidence shows that there are certain factors that can help to increase everyone’s wellbeing
What’s good for the body is good for the heart and the brain • Physical Activity sports, walking, gardening, yoga, cleaning... • Nutrition salt intake, sugar intake, healthy eating, cholesterol...
What’s good for the head is good for the heart… • Mental Activity Routines, things to look forward to, learning, culture... Stress Relief Identifying the stress, understanding it and releasing it... Feeling safe, financial stress, security of the basics food, home, warmth... Cup half full Enjoying, being thankful, reframing...
What’s good for the soul is good for the heart... Relationships Combating loneliness, family, friends, colleagues… What’s good for the soul Volunteering, feeling useful, giving back, having a role, a purpose, beliefs...
How can I achieve this? • Through staying active • By being social and engaging with others in a variety of ways
What does this mean in Hillingdon? • What opportunities are there locally? • What changes and activities are within my reach during the winter months?
Keeping Active • MOVES exercise classes (over 65s) • Dances - Tea, Line & Desi • Healthy Walks • Leisure centre: Young at heart • Free swimming (over 65s)/swimming lessons • Bowling clubs • Cycling • Active 50+ Brunel • Allotments
Keeping Active through MOVES • This includes chair based & zumba gold exercise in libraries & community centers • Check out your local library to find out time and day of all the session • Uxbridge Tuesdays at 11:30am • Botwell Thursdays at 10:00am • Manor Farm Monday 10:00am Cost £1
Keeping Active through Dance • Tea Dances monthly at the Civic Centre and Winston Churchill Hall (3 rd Monday & Thursday month) • Tea Dances and Line Dances at West Drayton Community Centre (First Monday or Tuesday of the month) • Desi Dance at Botwell (last Wednesday of each month)
Emi Tea dance
Tea Dances • “I live on my own, it gives me something to look forward to” • “Everyone is happy, it lifts your spirits” • “I’ve made new friends” • “I was depressed now I come here and I feel better”
Drumming at Uxbridge Coffee Morning
Socialising • Social Clubs • Dining Centres and Lunch Clubs • U3A • Library Coffee Mornings • Resident AssociationS • Dementia Coffee Mornings (Uxbridge, Botwell, Northwood Hills, Ruislip Manor, Harlington, Yiewsley)
“I live alone, I look forward to coming here every week. We have a laugh. It gives me something to look forward to.” Patricia, 75
Day of the Older person 25 th September
Attend Events • Day of the Older Person (September 2018) • Christmas Extravaganza (December 2018)
Christmas Extravaganza
Stress relief, enjoying Life • Green Spaces and Parks • Theatres: The Beck, Compass, Northwood Arts • Rent a Canal Boat: Harefield • Southlands Art centre • Libraries, Culture Bite • Bunker Museum • Take trips (freedom Pass..)
Line dance session
A new project: Tovertafel (Magic Table) To offer a meaningful and accessible activity to people living with dementia that they are able to share with their family and friends at the leisure. To offer groups the opportunity to utilise Tovertafel in Hillingdon libraries for free.
A new project: Tovertafel (Magic Table) • Purchased four for Hillingdon Libraries: Uxbridge, Botwell, Ruislip Manor and Northwood Hills • Contact your local library to book a session
Tovertafel
Tovertafel
Keep your mind active • Hillingdon Adult Learning Centres • University of the Third Age • Brunel University • Museums • Travel
Uxbridge Art Workshop
Feeling useful and contributing • Volunteering for Age Uk, Hillingdon Carers, a charity shop.. • Become a Dementia Champion • Join a group (Resident Association, Town Action groups…) • Help out in a school (Time Travellers...)
‘People from the group see me on the bus or when I am out shopping and say hello to me’
“I’ve met people here in the same situation as me. I don’t feel so alone.” Anne,70, a carer of someone with dementia
“I haven’t laughed this much in years”
So what now? • What activities do you think you might be interested in? • What contributes towards your wellbeing?
To book or for questions • Sport & Physical Activity Team 01895 250 453 sportandphysicalactivty@hillingdon.gov.uk • To book dances: 01895 556 688 www.hillingdon.gov.uk/teadance
Questions & Answers and Discussion
Next Assembly Tuesday 26 March 2019 Registration and refreshments at 1:30 to 2:00pm 42
Thank you for attending today 43
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