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  • Understand better
    • Ageing is a normal biological process
    • From 40 to 90 loss of fitness is serious
    • The effects of disease are often compounded by loss of fitness
    • Negative beliefs and attitudes have a huge impact
    • The importance of planning with purpose
    • The Ageing Brain and the Maturing Mind
    • Strength and Power can always be increased
    • Skill and co-ordination can be improved at any age
    • Stamina can be improved by brisk walking
    • Suppleness can always be improved and stiffness always reduced
    • Activity Therapy is of vital importance

the College for Living Longer Better  is designed to help people, including  family members, volunteers and professionals,  understand the new knowledge about ageing, fitness, disease and beliefs

Ageing by itself is not a cause of major problems till the late nineties

THE NEW FACTS OF LIFE 

The Facts of Life, where do babies come from? The need for children to understand about the Birds and the Bees has long accepted but there is a second set of facts of life, the facts about living longer and these are at least as important . Here are the top ten modules and what you will learn from doing them 

UNDERSTANDING AGEING
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • Define what is meant by the term ageing
  • Emphasise how the effects that many people assume are due to ageing are in fact due to three other factors – loss of fitness, disease and negative beliefs and attitudes
  • Encourage other people to be positive about ageing and take action to reduce loss of fitness or preventable disease.
UNDERSTANDING FITNESS 
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • define what is meant by fitness and describe how it relates to ageing?
  • describe the different dimensions of fitness and how they can be improved?
  • understand the social barriers to increased activity and how people overcome these barriers.
PREVENTING AND COPING WITH DISEASE
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • Define the relationship between disease, ageing and loss of fitness
  • Explain the importance of loss of fitness for people who have one or more than one long term condition, whatever their age
  • Take action to ensure that the treatments that are being offered are all those with a high probability of benefit and low probability of risk
UNDERSTANDING AND CHANGING HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT AGEING
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • define the difference between beliefs and attitudes
  • describe how negative beliefs and pessimistic attitudes can increase the rate at which ability is lost and disability develops 
  • encourage someone to become more positive by informing them about the relative unimportance of ageing compared with loss of fitness
UNDERSTANDING BRAIN AND MIND
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • discuss the relationship of the brain and the mind
  • ​describe the difference between the effects of normal ageing and the effects of dementia 
  • explain what can be done to optimise brain ability and reduce the risk of dementia 
DEVELOPING STRENGTH AND POWER 
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • describe the difference between between strength and power 
  • define the reasons why strength declines as people live longer
  • state what can be done to maintain and increase strength and power
INCREASING STAMINA
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • Explain what is meant by moderate intensity exercise and how that can be achieved?
  • Know the type of activity that other people can be encouraged to take up or increase to increase stamina.
  • understand the importance of increasing stamina in people with heart or lung disease
MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING SKILL 
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • Define what is meant by a skill and why it is important to maintain and develop skills
  • Understand why ageing by itself is less important for losing skills than failing to use them and proving the concept of "use it or lose it" to everyone
  • Promote and encourage new activities specifically designed to improve skill and coordination and helping others to do the same whatever their age and whatever number of  long term conditions they may have.
INCREASING SUPPLENESS 
By the end of this module you will be able to 
  • understand what is meant by suppleness and how it relates to stiffness
  • discuss and describe the relative contributions of ageing, loss of fitness and disease to the development of fitness
  • take action to increase suppleness 
 
 TOP TEN QUESTIONS 

Here is another way of thinking about the benefits of the modules . Here are the top ten questions that you will be able to answer after working through the Academy's modules 

  • What is ageing?
  • What is fitness and how does it relate to ageing?
  • What are the common diseases on old age and can they be prevented?
  • What do people , including professionals believe about growing older?
  • How can healthy life expectancy be increased so we live well longer?
  • What is dementia  and can it be prevented?
  • How can people be helped to feel better?
  • How can physical ability be maintained or improved?
  • How can cognitive ability be maintained or improved?
  • Is population ageing positive or negative?

These are available as podcasts and as briefings, short documents you can read or print off to give to someone who needs to understand 
This is a regular broadcast on the scientific and social aspects of growing older, ageing, fitness and disease, and their inter-relationships. There is a core set of ten short broadcasts or apps to use another term,  based on the questions above covering the core issues and these would make a good gift for someone who is getting older, a parent or grand parent for example 
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