Purpose

To approve the Council's Healthy Ageing
Strategy 2023-2028. The Healthy Ageing Strategy sets out how the
Council and its partners will work to make Buckinghamshire more age
friendly, which is a priority in the Joint Health and Wellbeing
Strategy. This will support Buckinghamshire residents to live
healthy, fulfilling, and independent lives for as long as possible,
to ‘age well’.

Content

In response to the Joint Health
and Wellbeing Strategy commitment of ‘improving places and
helping communities to support healthy ageing’ a Healthy
Ageing Strategy had been developed. The strategy set out the
Council’s commitment to become an ‘age friendly
community’ by undertaking improvement actions across the 8
interconnected areas identified by the World Health Organization
(WHO) to support older people to live healthy, active and independent lives.
 
The strategy was supported by a
multi-agency Age Friendly Bucks Partnership, chaired by the Deputy
Leader and Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, and a network
of partners and residents who oversaw, informed and helped create the strategy and
underpinning action plan. It had been informed by resident
engagement, and engagement would continue with communities
throughout the duration of the strategy.
 
RESOLVED that Cabinet note the contents of the new
Buckinghamshire Healthy Ageing Strategy and endorse the actions
within it.