Active Ageing and Fall Prevention: Social Determinants Report HWEL2009

This report delves into the critical topics of active ageing and fall prevention, emphasizing the significance of social determinants of health. It begins by introducing active ageing as a process to optimize opportunities for physical, mental, and social health, with a focus on fall prevention strategies and the importance of societal commitment. The background section explores the psychosocial and biological changes associated with active ageing, addressing the impact of chronic diseases and sedentary lifestyles. The analysis section examines the social determinants of health, including economic stability, healthcare access and quality, and the neighborhood environment, and how these factors influence the well-being and quality of life of older adults. The report highlights the need for government initiatives to address poverty, improve healthcare access, and create safer environments. The conclusion summarizes the findings, emphasizing the role of fall prevention in maintaining functional abilities and promoting health equity. This report provides valuable insights into the complex interplay of factors that contribute to healthy ageing and fall prevention strategies.

Active ageing and fall
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Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background......................................................................................................................................1
Analysis............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Active ageing through fall prevention constrained of adequate commitment which usually
involved all the varied segment of society, professionalism within health care as well as social
service organisations that is offered through both private and voluntary sectors such as informal
care, communities of older people (Choi, S. D. and et. al. (2017)) . Healthy ageing is a procedure
through which optimised level of opportunity is enabled within physical, mental and social
health. It enables ageing people that take active participation in society instead of discrimination
toward living quality. There are various needs to promote healthy ageing strategies such as
exercise regularly, don’t smoke, take enough sleep, avoidance of chronic stress, maintenance of
healthy weight, taking of healthy diet, tinker of suitable nutrition as well as required microbiome.
Background
The active ageing is related to both psychosocial as well as biological change that more
often dependent on the suitable adaptation related to motivational priorities and its goals. As
majority of people of all around the world have faced poor health situations that is dependent
over both chronic as well as non-communicable diseases. It is also being crucial to address
physical functioning, sedentary lifestyle that has direct impact over decrement of muscle
strength. For this level of participation within daily life activities that is related to both physical
activity as well as life balance. The demographics of active ageing is dependent over slight
towards higher death rate which is also get dependent over biological, social and psychological
aspects. It induces direct impact over accumulation of wider variety which leads towards gradual
decrement within physical and mental capacity that enlarge risk of disease which ultimately turns
into death. The living situation is dependent over addiction towards smoking and tobacco that
pertains with modified risk and adequate decrement of protein. It is an essential prospect as it
assists to promote expectancy of life as per ageing.
Analysis
The social determinants of health reflect the condition within the environment as at where an
individual get born, live, learn, work, age and worship that collectively affects direct impact over
health and functioning of quality life with this better outcome is developed as by reducing risk
credibility’s (Collinet, C., & Delalandre, M. (2017)). It advances the level of accessibility that is
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used to empower and advance participation of older person. There are different social
determinants that is as defined below as:
 Economic stability: There are about 1 out of 10 individual live in poverty and can’t
able to afford basic necessity such as healthy food, housing and health care practice.
The people who get steady empowerment are less likely to live during poverty and
leads towards to be healthier such as individual with injury, disability, situation like
arthritis that get limits with working ability. As the aging people needs employment
to manage and control daily needs and requirement for which working credibility is
attained within regular period of instance. It gets managed if government take
initiative about to design and develop employment program, high quality child care,
career counselling which is related to policy about food, health care, housing,
education that has direct impact over decrement of poverty and improvisation of
well-being along with health advancement. It assists aged people to earn proper wage
which leads steady increment in wages that also allows to induce adequate mental
health that is pertained by managing suitable needs and its requirement.
 Health care access and quality: It get increase the accessibility and
comprehensiveness along with higher health care related services that advance living
standards and possibility to live better and healthy life for regular period of time. For
this government get provide suitable health insurance which assurance of possible
health related care that usually can’t afforded by an individual (Lionis, C., & Midlöv,
P. (2017)). In addition, suitable medication as well as sustained strategies are
developed that cover critical reliability such as prevention of care and treatment that
is related to chronic illness. Moreover, health care provision and better intervention
is developed as with this adequate offering is processed with adequateness. It
advances the accessibility of health care professionals that improvise communication
credibility too. It assists the aged people to remote all the basic need with better
implication so that ability to live a health life is developed in progressive manner.
For this quality service is offered at the time of need and requirement through which
possibility to attain better living is assessed in favourable manner.
 Neighbourhood and Built Environment: It is a social determinant with this
sustained environment is developed and designed with this health and suitable safety
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is promoted in balanced mode. It has major impact over the advancement and
enhancement of well-being and health. For this direct based focus and aim is attained
as by improvising safety and health measures such as live, work, people, play and
learning in adequate manner. As there is an unsafe surround that is processed with
this air and water all get polluted that has wider impact over likelihood of all
individual. Furthermore, racial and ethnic minority along with lower income of
individual having less likely to people as it also advances moderate level of risk with
sustained level of possibility (Vaziri, D. D. and et. al. (2017)). It gets exposed all the
intervention with this government get intervene with federal level that usually
reduces safety and health related measure along with promotion of safer surround
that is more likely for each individual. In this better opportunity is created and
developed for communal benefit through which both health and quality standards of
life get controlled in timely manner.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report and active ageing and fall prevention is
contributed towards functional decline that is associated with aging. The fall prevention is a
procedure that is prevent and eliminate suitable hazard related to fall. Furthermore, there are
various social determinants that is used to influence health ageing that has direct impact over
individual health, well-being and quality standards of life that contribute towards inequities and
health disparities.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Choi, S. D. and et. al. (2017). Exergame technology and interactive interventions for elderly fall
prevention: a systematic literature review. Applied ergonomics, 65, 570-581.
Collinet, C., & Delalandre, M. (2017). Physical and sports activities, and healthy and active
ageing: Establishing a frame of reference for public action. International Review for the
Sociology of Sport, 52(5), 570-583.
Lionis, C., & Midlöv, P. (2017). Prevention in the elderly: a necessary priority for general
practitioners. European Journal of General Practice, 23(1), 203-208.
Vaziri, D. D. and et. al. (2017). Analysis of effects and usage indicators for a ICT-based fall
prevention system in community dwelling older adults. International Journal of
Human-Computer Studies, 106, 10-25.
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