Update: January 2024

Here is a brief selection of our recent work, and what we expect to be doing over the next month.

Compiled and published a summary of our Enhance conference , ‘people ● prevention ● partnership’
Published a series of three videos about the impact of Enhance
Got some great mentions of Men’s Health Unlocked at the Health & Social Care Select Committee in parliament
Collect final monitoring returns from BOSS delivery partners
Took part in digital online safety podcast with Chapel FM – out in January
Interviewed by Louise Sellers from NHS for LCP Digest on Google Translate work and how we can take it wider across Leeds
Reflected on the Importance of communities as we age.
Taken part in the Jo Cox Foundation event ‘A wave of Connections’, at Leeds Playhouse, and met groups and organisations from across West Yorkshire
Welcomed our colleagues from Brighton & Hove Age and Dementia Friendly who attended the Age Friendly Partnership on Healthy Ageing and supported a visit to RHEA

Share focus group findings on the topic of driving safely for longer and retiring from driving
Deliver Google Translate training to staff from NHS, Third sector and Local Care Partnerships, alongside 100% Digital Leeds
Deliver the final session for the Warm Welcome network, ‘Finding the older people you’d really like to welcome’ with my GPM colleague Jo Stapleton
meet with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to help them revise the loneliness section of their Safe and Well training
Deliver Wise Up to Ageism to Anchor Housing, OWLS, Trinity Leeds and Bramley Elderly Action
Deliver Dementia Friends to South Leeds PCN GP Surgeries, Zurich Insurance and Thornton Medical Practice
The Age Friendly Steering Group will be consulting with W est Yorkshire Combined Authority on the plans for Thorpe Park Train Station
Promote the Mature Driver Appraisal scheme
have a break over Christmas and new year, and come back ready for more work

Wishing everybody a happy, age friendly and age proud 2024!

Rob Cook
Communications Officer