Productive Healthy Ageing Profile

Healthy & risk behaviours

The following selected resources provide further guidance and data on health-related behaviours & linked states, including physical activity, strength and balance, smoking, alcohol misuse, diet and obesity.

General

• Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet - annual statistics published by NHS Digital (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• Health Survey for England - analysis of annual national survey results published by NHS Digital - covers a range of topics including health-related behaviours (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• Behaviour change: guide for local government and partners (2020) published by Public Health England
• Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England (2018) published by Public Health England
• See also the early interventions section

Physical Activity

• Everybody active, every day: framework for physical activity - collection of resources published by Public Health England. An evidence-based approach for national and local action to address the physical inactivity epidemic
• Physical Activity - local authority level data profile tool published by Public Health England 
• UK Chief Medical Officers' physical activity guidelines (2019) published by the Department of Health & Social Care
• Brisk walking and physical inactivity in 40 to 60 year olds (2018) report published by Public Health England
  
• Physical activity and older people - collection of guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
• Being active as you get older - collection published by Age UK
• Active Ageing published by Sport England
• Active Lives surveys - published by Sport England - includes local authority level data
• Later Life Training promoting physical activity amongst older people. Includes 10-minute online movement classes, three times a day, for older people or those who have been very sedentary and want to ease back into movement. Also available as archived videos. 

Strength and balance

• Strength and balance programme published by the Centre for Ageing Better
• Raising the bar on strength and balance: The importance of community-based provision (2019) published by the Centre for Ageing Better in collaboration with the Healthy Ageing Research Group at the Univeristy of Manchester and Later Life Training (LLT)
  
• Strength and balance quality markers - Supporting improvement through audit (2019) published by Public Health England
• Muscle and bone strengthening and balance activities for general health benefits in adults and older adults - Summary of a rapid evidence review for the UK Chief Medical Officers’ update of the physical activity guidelines (2018) published by Public Health England and the Centre for Ageing Better
• See also the Falls & Fractures section

Smoking

• Collection - Tobacco and smoking: policy, regulation and guidance published by Public Health England
• Health Matters - Smoking - blogs published by Public Health England
• Local Tobacco Control Profiles - local authority level data tool published by Public Health England
• Smoking overview - guidance on addressing smoking published by NICE 
  
• Adult smoking habits in the UK - annual report and dataset (including age breakdowns) published by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England
• The costs of smoking to the social care system and related costs for older people in England (2019) - report and local and regional estimates published by ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)

Alcohol misuse

• Alcohol: applying All Our Health (2018) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Alcohol-related guidance published by NICE
• Local Alcohol Profiles for England - local authority level data tool published by Public Health England
• Statistics on Alcohol - annual statistics published by NHS Digital (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• The public health burden of alcohol: evidence review (updated Aug 2018) - report published by Public Health England
• Older people and alcohol misuse: helping people stay in their homes (2016) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Alcohol Change UK - "alcohol charity, formed from the merger of Alcohol Concern and Alcohol Research UK"
• Drink Wise Age Well - a range of online resources and delivery of services in 5 demonstrator locations across the UK

Diet

• National Diet & Nutrition Survey: Assessment of salt intake in adults, England 2018 to 2019 (2020) published by Public Health England
• Impact assessment - Helping older people maintain a healthy diet: A review of what works (2017) published by Public Health England
• Patterns and trends in adult diet (2017) - presentation published by Public Health England
• Older People Specialist Group published by the Association of UK Dieticians (BDA)
• Malnutrition Taskforce - a focus on malnutrition in later life
• Healthy eating - Your guide to eating well published by Age UK
• The Eatwell Guide published by Public Health England
• Healthy Eating collection of resources on the .gov website
• Vitamins and minerals guidance published on the NHS website (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)

Obesity

• Obesity - products published by NICE including guidance, NICE Pathways and quality standards
• Obesity published on the NHS website (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity "calling for the Government to take a new approach to tackling obesity through prevention and treatment" (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser to view menu options)
• Adult obesity: patterns and trends (2020) - updated slideset published by Public Health England
• Adult obesity: applying All Our Health (2019) - updated guidance for front-line health and care staff published by Public Health England
  
• Health matters: whole systems approach to obesity (2019) guidance published by Public Health England
• Weight management interventions: standard evaluation framework (2018) guidance published by Public Health England
• Adult Obesity moving map (2018) published by Public Health England. A time series map showing the change in prevalence of adult obesity for sub national geographies from 1993-2016.
• Obesity statistics (2018) – briefing paper published by the UK Parliament
• Health Survey for England 2017 - Adult and child overweight and obesity (2018) published by NHS Digital (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• Health matters: obesity and the food environment (2017) guidance published by Public Health England