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Talk 6: Lifelong learning – How the continual renewal of skills benefits us all. Ageing Well Public Talks series 2024/2025

Dates
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 11:00 to 13:00
Location
Online

Join us for a session on building new skills throughout life, part of the Ageing Well Public Talks series 2024/2025The Open University and Ageing Well Public Talks Logos

In this talk we will highlight the key role that unions play in providing access to learning and skills to adults in their working lives and beyond. Sarah, Stevie and Jenny will share some examples where access to learning for personal and professional development (e.g. within health and social care) has a positive impact to individuals, families, workplaces and the wider community, where lifelong learning is vital at any age.

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The speakers

Sarah Hayes – Head of Learning and Organising Services, UNISON, the UK’s largest union, representing more than 1.3 million members who work in public services and utilities. Sarah leads the UNISON College, which provides learning opportunities for all members across the union.

Stevie Milward is a Workforce Learning Development Organiser within UNISON and organises learning across the UK.

Jenny Griffin is a trade union organiser and part of the learning team with UNISON Cymru/Wales. She is a trained tutor, project manager, and union activist with a background in learning, education, and equality.

 

 

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.

 

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