Talk 5: Exploring the many ways of staying active while ageing! Ageing Well Public Talks Series 2024/25

Join us for a session on staying active, part of the Ageing Well Public Talks series 2024/2025

Beti (Exercise is wonderful, but all is not hunky dory) will be discussing how the integration of physical activity into our daily lives in later years can be transformative. Her insights will also explore how ageism remains a feature of today’s society and considers how can we use the five pillars for ageing well to ensure we can continue to thrive and enjoy our later lives.

Volunteers can engage in a wide range of activities in many different contexts. In this session, Fiona and Michelle (Volunteering for health and wellbeing) explore how individuals can derive health benefits from their volunteering and how organisations can support volunteers’ well-being.

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The speakers

Beti George is a renowned Welsh broadcaster of television and radio. Beti is best known as a journalist who presented Newyddion (News) for the BBC on the Welsh S4C channel. She also presented music programmes and was the stage presenter for Singer of the world for many years. Her weekly Radio Cymru programme Beti a’i Phobl (Beti and her people) has just celebrated its 40th birthday. Recently she co-presented - with the BBC Radio6 DJ Huw Stephens - a TV series on hotels in Wales for S4C. Beti is a health campaigner raising awareness of Alzheimer’s and care for dementia sufferers and a keen advocate for the use of technology by older people.

Dr Fiona Liddell works with Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) to develop the potential of volunteering within health and social care. She also volunteers as secretary to friends of Cardiff reservoirs.

Michelle Impanni is the Volunteer Manager for Welsh Water and is responsible for developing volunteering across five reservoir sites in Wales.

About the series

In the 'Ageing Well Public Talk series' we are exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in older age, also known as the 'Five Pillars of Ageing Well'. Ageing demonstrates most significantly when we reach a certain age, the usual benchmark being 65+, but ageing starts much sooner and the way ageing demonstrates when we are over 65 depends on decisions we have been making over our life span.

The series and related materials such as ‘The Five Pillars of Ageing Well’ became the cornerstones of further engagement with the public, specifically around COVID-19 and the relating self-isolation, which are now available on the OU website and the Internet.

The overall aim of these series of interventions is to facilitate a step change in user behaviour and support service provision. Self-management and becoming partner in our own health care is an important aspect of these talks. This may have a wider impact in healthcare economies, as ageing and related co-morbidities have a substantial health and economic burden footprint.

AWPTS is a highly adaptable tool for addressing also the needs of diverse groups requiring tailored interventions, for instance, heart failure and diabetes, where prevention and sustained self-management are crucial for improving quality of life. Since 2019, over 25,000 members of the public have engaged with the talks nationally, and the AWPTS portfolio of resources has engaged over 90,000 people globally; our regular feedback confirms that this intervention has increased knowledge of age-related processes, attitudes to health and wellbeing, confidence in self-management and lifestyle choices for healthy ageing among the public as well as practitioners, professionals, and clinicians who support ageing populations in their professional roles.

This event will be held on Zoom. The organiser will contact you with instructions on how to access the event.

For more information about the event or if you have any queries, please email WELS Research Events

All talks last between 60-90 min.