Age Well to Care Well: Impact on carers health and caring role - Ageing Well Public Talk Series 2025/26

Talk 9 - Age Well to Care Well: Impact on carers health and caring role.

In this talk Tony will talk about his 42 years in health and social; care and how this prepared him for caring and how he uses his experience of being a wellbeing manager to enable better hydration and nutrition for his mum. He will also discuss how the declining health of his parents made him take up exercise, eat more nutritionally and look at ways to change his health patterns. Tony will share insights into how being gay can also bring expectations about being a carer - “you do not have children mostly, you might have a good income and job and you are seen as having no real commitments so, this makes you ideal for caring, and to take on the family caring role”. But as Tony reflects, if you had a difficult coming out and your family might have been hostile and not very understanding, that is forgotten when they need you.

The speaker

Tony Collins - Moore has worked in Health and Social Care since he left school at 17, he is an accomplished advocate, writer, policy development. He is passionate about carer wellbeing and is a co-author of the OU carer learning project, he is published in The British Journal of Learning Disability - Using Social and Educational Approaches to Enable a Man with Learning Disabilities to Develop his Sexual Identity and Orientation. He is an advocate and champion for carers and has worked at the Carers Centre Tower Hamlets for 13 years.