Active Practice News
Age UK and The Open University offer five steps for a longer, healthier life
Take Five to Age Well offers five steps to boost your health and wellbeing. Launching on 1 May, the campaign invites you to join a UK-wide community making small daily changes over 30 consecutive days for better ageing.
The five areas are: eat, drink, think, move and connect and engage. For each of these there are suggested SMART goals (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-sensitive) that are backed up by science.
Published on 25th Mar 2025
Virtual Village Hall (VVH)
The VVH is a free, fully funded online activity hub and community run by Royal Voluntary Service. It helps people have fun and stay socially connected and active. The VVH community is over 90,000 strong and growing.
From yoga, meditation and music to crafts, cooking and gardening, the VVH offers free live streamed activity sessions every weekday. Exercise and dance sessions include standing, adapted and seated options. You can use the VVH website to search and filter activities to support patients’ individual needs, then create and send tailored ‘activity prescriptions’.
https://virtualvillagehall.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/
Published on 25th Mar 2025
Regularly active people have lower health risks
Published on 25th Mar 2025