Decision details
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To approve the Council's Healthy Ageing
Strategy 2023-2028. The Healthy Ageing Strategy sets out how the
Council and its partners will work to make Buckinghamshire more age
friendly, which is a priority in the Joint Health and Wellbeing
Strategy. This will support Buckinghamshire residents to live
healthy, fulfilling, and independent lives for as long as possible,
to ‘age well’.
Decision:
In response to the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy commitment of ‘improving places and helping communities to support healthy ageing’ a Healthy Ageing Strategy had been developed. The strategy set out the Council’s commitment to become an ‘age friendly community’ by undertaking improvement actions across the 8 interconnected areas identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) to support older people to live healthy, active and independent lives.
The strategy was supported by a multi-agency Age Friendly Bucks Partnership, chaired by the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, and a network of partners and residents who oversaw, informed and helped create the strategy and underpinning action plan. It had been informed by resident engagement, and engagement would continue with communities throughout the duration of the strategy.
RESOLVED that Cabinet note the contents of the new Buckinghamshire Healthy Ageing Strategy and endorse the actions within it.
Details of any conflict of interest declared: None
Contact: Dr Jane O'Grady, Director of Public Health Email: Jane.OGrady@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
Report author: Rebecca Carley
Publication date: 05/03/2024
Date of decision: 05/03/2024
Decided at meeting: 05/03/2024 - Cabinet
Effective from: 14/03/2024
Accompanying Documents:
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