Age UK's Fit as a Fiddle, Final evaluation webinar, Nori Graham Age Action Alliance, 16th January 2013, presentations

1. Final evaluation webinar
Webinar chair
Dr Nori Graham, Age Action Alliance

2. Final evaluation webinar
House keeping points
- The length of the webinar is up to 1.5 hours
- Check that your ‘sound’ is turned up
- To note you can use computer speakers instead of a phone
- Ask for help using the Q&A box at the bottom of your screen at any time
- Remember to use ‘full screen’ mode!

3. Final evaluation webinar
1. Fit as a Fiddle programme background overview
2. Findings of the evaluation, impact and learning in relation to physical
activity, healthy eating and wellbeing
3. Q&A with panel
Remember: you can submit your questions at any time during
the presentations using the Q&A box

5. Launch of the Age Action Alliance
30 September 2011
• www.ageactionalliance.org
• National initiative to energize organisations to
improve older people’s lives
• Free for any organisation to join
• Independent partnership of over 260 cross sector
organisations
• Secretariat support by Age UK and DWP

6. How will the Alliance work?
• Focus on socially excluded and most vulnerable
• Commitment to ensuring older people at heart of
Alliance
• Working in partnership, building on what works,
sharing good practice
• Unique network: a ‘dating agency’ for practical
action

7. Public Health and Active Lifestyles working
group
Identify one or more initiatives which meet certain
agreed criteria:
• Meets one or more areas of focus of the Alliance
• Tried and tested
• Shown to be user friendly and accessed by local
people
• Ability to scale up programme

8. Exercise: the cheapest super drug
Regular exercise helps to prevent :
• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Depression
• Stroke
• Vascular dementia
• Loneliness and isolation

9. Public Health and Active Lifestyles working
group
5 Ways to Health and Wellbeing*
An individual needs to :
– connect
– take notice
– be active
– learn
– give
*New Economics Forum commissioned by Foresight

10. The Fit as a Fiddle programme
• Age UK initiative funded by the Big Lottery fund for 5
years
• Run by volunteers who receive training
• Supports older people with a series of national
programmes promoting:
Increased physical activity
Healthy eating
Mental wellbeing

11. The Fit as a Fiddle Approach
• Fits our theme of 5 Ways to Health and Wellbeing
• Meets our criteria
• Helps address loneliness and isolation
• Improves knowledge of diet, cooking and nutrition
and tackle obesity
• Enhances general wellbeing
• Encourages employers to include programmes
• Sustainable

12. Nicki Smith,
Managing Director of Ecorys’
Policy & Research team
Bernadette Bartlam (PHD),
Lecturer at Keele University
Julius Sim,
Professor of Health care
research at Keele University

13. Evaluation of the fit as a fiddle portfolio Final
Report – Key Findings
Nicola Smith, Ecorys
Bernadette Bartlam & Julius Sim, University of Keele

14. Question and answer session
In this final session we will answer any questions we have
collated throughout the webinar.
We will try and answer all of your questions but if we are
not able to do so we will answer them after the webinar if
we can, or point you to where in the published evaluation
you can find an answer.

15. Fit as a Fiddle resources
The following resources can be downloaded here on the Fit
as a Fiddle web pages or email fitasafiddle@ageuk.org.uk
for hard copies:
•Engaging older disabled people in physical activity
•Engaging faith and BME communities in activities for
wellbeing
•‘How to’ guides

16. Further details and contacts
Webinar presentation
The presentation will be available to view after the
webinar as it is being recorded. We will email the link to all
delegates booked onto the webinar.
Final evaluation report
The final evaluation report will be available as a pdf
document to download on the Age UK website by mid
February, we will also email this link.
You can find presenter contact details in the evaluation
report pages.