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Take Five to Age Well 2025: Make Your Pledge
Created: 23/04/2025
News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
Launching on Thursday 01 May 2025, the Take Five to Age Well campaign invites you to join a UK-wide community making small changes in your daily routine for better ageing. You are committing to your future health by choosing to try a healthy action(s) for one month.
Developed by The Open University, in partnership with Age UK, this expert-led pledge includes everyday actions to help you live well for longer.
Why sign up to Take Five to Age Well?
Most people want to stay in good health for longer, and research tells us there are lots of easy habits that can help you to stay strong, sharp, independent, and feel good; we know that environmental factors determine 70-80% of the ageing process. Take Five to Age Well will empower you to adopt small healthy changes throughout May 2025 that will genuinely impact your health and wellbeing.
There are five areas where you can choose new habits:
- Eat: healthy eating is good for your health.
- Drink: stay well hydrated for healthy ageing.
- Move: exercise boosts body and mind.
- Connect and Engage: make and maintain social connections for your health.
- Think: use your brain to stay sharp.
A full Participant Information Sheet is available for you to download.
What will you be asked to do?
Your challenge will be to choose one or more actions and commit to them for one month throughout May 2025. They'll support you in turning those actions into habits for long-term health and well-being, sending you regular e-mails (three e-mails every week) with ideas, tips, short films, podcasts, and tricks to keep you going. The actions you can choose from are listed below, and there's something for everyone. It might also help if you ask a friend, volunteer, carer and/or family member to sign up with you pledge. Enter your details below to create new habits for your good health and wellbeing this May.
They are also offering a range of materials to further support you and motivate you. You can choose from wellbeing diaries, calendars, and educational toolkits that support improving health and wellbeing via fun activities across generations. These are on the resources page of our Take Five to Age Well website or available on request by e-mailing [email protected].
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