Healthy Peterborough - Ageing well

10 tips for ageing better

We know it’s not just about living longer, it’s about living healthily and happily for longer. Follow our top 10 tips for ageing better.

Living well with dementia

Dementia is caused when parts of the brain stop working properly due to disease or trauma.

Keeping active

Being active is critical to maintain a healthy body and mind for later years, and poorer health in later life is not inevitable.

Don't fall for it!

Improving safety in the home can help you from having falls and injuring yourself, whilst allowing you to continue to live independently.

Get an NHS Health Check

Like a ‘midlife MOT’, it aims to control risk factors and help prevent diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, stroke and dementia.

Services to prevent falls

The city council's provides a range of services that are focused around Falls Prevention.

Benefits of exercise

The more you sit, the weaker and more frail you become. See below for problems you can reduce the risk of avoiding with exercise.

Local Dementia Support

Based at the Dementia Resource Centre (DRC), the Alzheimer’s Society provides a one-stop shop for residents of Peterborough whose lives are affected by dementia.

Eat a healthy, balanced diet to reduce your risk of dementia

Eating a healthy, balanced diet is important for your physical health and mental health. Staying a healthy weight helps to protect against dementia, throughout your life.

Being active reduces the risk of falls and dementia

Being active in older age is essential for avoiding falls which can cause serious injury and stop you doing the things you enjoy in everyday life.

Cancer Screening

Healthy lifestyle changes can prevent many cases of cancer, screening aims to drive down cancer cases even further. National programmes are in place for breast cancer screening, cervical screening and bowel cancer screening to help identify cancer at an early stage when it's more treatable.

Active in younger years helps you age well

Living healthily in middle age can double your chances of being healthy when you are 70.

Feb-Mar 2018

Ageing well