Many people engaged with Take Five to Age Well online, using our digital resources and content. Below you can explore a selection of interviews to find out what they learned about themselves regarding ageing well and the changes they made as a result:

Alan

Linda

Linda discovered how a tiny shift can create a lasting habit and now thinks everyone needs “a little oomph” sometimes.

Liz

Liz has transformed her daily routine, her health and even her outlook on ageing with one simple Take Five change.

Pauline

From resetting her habits to taking practical steps, Pauline now looks after her wellbeing and encourages friends and family to join her.

Sinead

Take Five to Age Well has also been used offline in community groups, clubs and informal gatherings. These case studies show the difference the campaign made when people came together in person to explore what ageing well means to them:

Super Snowdrops

The Super Snowdrops in Lochgilphead show how a supportive group can use Take 5 to boost confidence and help members take personal steps towards ageing well.

Pickleball Group

The Pickleball Group in Perth built Take Five into their regular meet-ups. Their story highlights how supporting one another to stay on track can deepen existing activities and create space for meaningful discussion.

Yoker Resource Centre

The Yokers group based in Glasgow adapted Take Five ideas to suit their members and local context showing how flexible the campaign can be.

Take Five to Age Well has also been adopted by organisations who want to support healthy, positive ageing in their communities. Below, partners share what Take Five to Age Well helped them achieve and how they integrated the campaign into their work.

Active Dorset

Active Dorset is one of the 43 Active Partnership in England. Active Dorset work with partners through a system change approach to increase the numbers of people that are supported to be more physically active.

AgeWell by BridgitCare

AgeWell is a digital healthy ageing support platform designed to help people live well for longer. It offers friendly, personalised support across the Open University’s Five Pillars approach to healthy ageing, helping users think about movement, eating well, hydration, mental stimulation, and social engagement. The AgeWell platform was built, with contributions from Age UK and The Open University, for the purpose of supporting the Take Five to Age Well public health campaign in 2025.

Age Scotland

Take Five to Age Well (Take Five) is a healthy ageing initiative from The Open University that Age Scotland has been a partner in since 2022. The campaign offers encouragement and a framework for individuals to change habits for healthy ageing in one or more of The Open University’s ‘Five Pillars of Ageing Well’ areas: nutrition, hydration, physical, social and cognitive stimulation.

Haringey Experiential Age Well Festival

Haringey has among the highest levels of frailty among over 50s in London, with the North Central London Integrated Care Board specifically mentioning ‘Ageing Well’ as being pivotal within its population health strategy. While initiatives like The Open University’s ‘Ageing Well Public Talk Series’ and the ‘Take Five to Age Well’ pledge have helped translate this knowledge into practical actions, engagement remains disproportionate, especially among deprived and diverse communities.

Hillingdon Council & GP Federation & NHS Northwest London Trust

Take Five is an award-winning, low-cost public health UK-wide campaign, uniquely blending an evidence-based model of a month-long challenge (pledge) with evidence-based, public-facing, and scientifically curated educational content in the form of engagement emails/newsletters rooted in science around behaviour change. After running successfully at the national level and engaging over 5,000 participants in 2023& 2025, and in partnership with The OU, the Hillingdon Council, GP Federation, AGE UK Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent, NHS Northwest London Trust, and Integrated Care Board Northwest London are working together to bring the Take Five back to support specifically the patient population in Hillingdon Borough with delaying the progression of Frailty.

More information on the impact to be added soon.