This event has now been postponed due to the death of Her Majesty the Queen

The Welsh Senedd Cardiff,
Pierhead St, Cardiff CF99 1SN
Wednesday 14th September from 12 noon to 1.30 pm

Action For Elders celebrates a decade of change and innovation in attitudes and services for older people with a reception at the Welsh Senedd Cardiff. This year, Action For Elders celebrates its 10th Anniversary, when we will be looking back over our first decade and looking forward to our positive vision of the future of ageing.

Balanced Lives Programmes

Over the past decade we introduced our award-winning Balanced Lives programmes, which started life as simple exercises for fall prevention and developed over time into a complete health and wellbeing package for the older community. Over this time, our ethos has always been to put people first with the aim of adding life to later life.

Programme of events

1. Introduction and celebration of Action For Elders eventful first decade. The speakers include Mike Hedges MS, Senedd Constituency Member, Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party, Swansea East and James Lewis, Action For Elders Founder.
2. Film montage on Action For Elders through the years. Our story is one of inspiration through the lives of our participants and changing the narrative on ageing from negative to a positive.
3. A Fair Deal for Older People. Our Chair, Lorraine Morgan, will be launching the new Council of Elders initiative and our A Fair Deal For Older People campaign (part of the Think Differently About Ageing initiative), calling for better provision for the older community to help deal with cost of living increases and health issues. We are asking for universal access to exercise and digital services via our Balanced Lives health & Wellbeing programmes and our Digital Inclusion programme.
4. Taking Control of your own health. Dr Sally Lewis, Clinical Lead of Value-Based Healthcare focuses on the real value of people taking control of their own health choices.
5. Getting Younger as We Age. Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022. The poet and cultural ambassador for Wales reads his deeply personal poem about the challenges of later life.
6. Video Compilation: Thanks To Action For Elders. Testimonials from our participants.

Attendance

Attendance at the event is by invitation only however the Senedd and the Pierhead will remain accessible to the public during our normal opening hours.

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