Age Concern Cymru

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What is Ageing Well in Wales?

Ageing Well in Wales is a health promotion programme that promotes better health in later life.

The aim is to improve the health and well being of older people through investing in community and older people’s groups, recognising the importance of older people in the design, development and delivery of health enhancing programmes. Read more...

What is an Ageing Well Volunteer?

An important feature of the Ageing Well Programme is the recruitment, training and deployment of trained Ageing Well Volunteers.

The benefits of communicating with someone of a similar age, and perhaps of the same gender and similar cultural background are obvious. People are able to empathise and understand through shared experience. Read more...
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Want to get Involved?

If you are interested in the role of Ageing Well Volunteer or getting involved in the development of an Ageing Well project. Please contact:

Mark Allen, Healthy Ageing Manager,

Age Concern Cymru, Ty John Pathy, 13/14 Neptune Court, Vanguard

Way, Cardiff CF24 5PJ

Tel: 029 2043 1556 / Fax: 029 2047 1418

email: mark.allen@accymru.org.uk

Download the getting involved form and return to Age Concern Cymru.

To download a full list of Ageing Well Projects in Wales please click here.

Membership of the Ageing Well in Wales Network

To start a new project or see how your existing work can benefit from the Ageing Well in Wales programme, please have a look at the criteria for active membership.

Ageing Well Leaflets

As the Ageing Well in Wales initiative develops and new projects are established across Wales, 12 leaflets have been produced that provide information, advice and contacts for some of the key issues affecting the health and wellbeing of older people in Wales.

- Staying Focused (looking after your eyes), English/ Welsh
- Making the most of your retirement, English/ Welsh
- A smile for life (oral health), English/ Welsh
- Fit foot steps (foot health), English/ Welsh
- Physical activity…just one step away, English/ Welsh
- Emotional health and well-being, English/ Welsh
- Men’s health – mission impossible?, English/ Welsh
- Its never too late (stopping smoking), English/ Welsh
- How safe is your home?, English/ Welsh
- Out and healthy (older lesbians, gay men and bisexuals – accessing health services), English/ Welsh
- You and your doctor…working together, English/ Welsh
- Eat well-age well, English/ Welsh
- Drinking Wisely, Ageing Well, English/ Welsh

These leaflets are being distributed via local Ageing Well projects across Wales that have direct contact with older people through healthy ageing initiatives and activities. For copies of the leaflets or for information about starting an Ageing Well project in Wales, please contact Mark Allen, Ageing Well Manager, Age Concern Cymru.