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Active Lives Health Integration Team
Active Lives HIT

Active Lives

A team of academics, clinicians, commissioners and members of the public working together to improve activity and health.

Previously Active Older People (APPHLE), the team has changed its name to Active Lives to better reflect the remit of its work across the course of people’s lives.

Physical activity has the potential to improve health and wellbeing throughout an individual's life. In middle-aged and older people, physical activity helps individuals maintain their physical and mental function and reduces their risk of physical and mental diseases. Sedentary behaviour dramatically increases health risk in older people and disproportionately affects people with low socio-economic status, leading to health inequalities.

Latest news and events

Study shows children’s physical activity levels fell below national guidelines in wake of pandemic

Study shows children’s physical activity levels fell below national guidelines in wake of pandemic

16 May 2022

New research has revealed children’s physical activity levels in the UK were significantly lower by the time the COVID-19 pandemic public lockdown restrictions were lifted. The study, led by the University of Bristol, found that by the end of 2021 li...

Bristol Walk Fest 2022 launches with NO LIMITS#2 photographic exhibition

Bristol Walk Fest 2022 launches with NO LIMITS#2 photographic exhibition

26 April 2022

To launch this year’s Bristol Walk Fest, Active Ageing Bristol’s NO LIMITS#2 outdoor photographic exhibition will be taking place on College Green from 28 April to 25 May. The exhibition features photographs showing that age is no barrier to active li...

Landmark study demonstrates long-term positive impacts and cost effectiveness of tailored group exercise for over-65s with mobility limitations

Landmark study demonstrates long-term positive impacts and cost effectiveness of tailored group exercise for over-65s with mobility limitations

22 March 2022

Results from a major study into the effectiveness of a community-based group exercise programme designed for people aged 65 and over with mobility limitations shows that REACT prevents physical decline and is cost-effective to run. The team behind it, whi...

Active Lives HIT relaunches with Dance for Wellbeing conference

Active Lives HIT relaunches with Dance for Wellbeing conference

17 November 2021

Our long-standing Active Older People Health Integration Team (APPHLE HIT) has relaunched as Active Lives HIT, to better reflects its focus on the benefits of physical activity to health and wellbeing over the course of people’s lives. To coincide with...

Bristol Health Partners works with hospital charities on new programme of support to benefit thousands in the community

Bristol Health Partners works with hospital charities on new programme of support to benefit thousands in the community

23 September 2021

Bristol Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) has joined forces with Bristol’s hospital charities on an innovative programme of support to benefit thousands in the community. Above & Beyond, Southmead Hospital Charity and...

New option for how people with COVID-19 are cared for on NHS wards

New option for how people with COVID-19 are cared for on NHS wards

30 August 2021

A new protocol for prone positioning — a technique commonly used to treat COVID-19 patients in respiratory distress by turning them on to their front to increase oxygen flow to the lungs, is published in the Journal of Frailty and Aging. Researchers fro...

APPHLE HIT's achievements of 2020-21

APPHLE HIT's achievements of 2020-21

20 July 2021

Directors of the Active People Promoting Healthy Life Expectancy (APPHLE) HIT Karen Lloyd and Professor Charlie Foster provide an update on the HIT’s work in 2020/21. Last year APPHLE HIT partnered with Active Ageing Bristol/Age UK Bristol and Bristol...

Bristol Walk Fest 2021 celebrates successes

Bristol Walk Fest 2021 celebrates successes

24 June 2021

Bristol Walk Fest adapted its programme of walks for 2021 to make more available online and to download for free via the walking app Go Jauntly, encouraging Bristolians to get out safely with friends and family and reconnect with their city after lockdown...

The importance of ‘Information About Me’: understanding the hidden causes of delays in discharging frail older people from hospital

The importance of ‘Information About Me’: understanding the hidden causes of delays in discharging frail older people from hospital

8 June 2021

Delays in discharging older people living with frailty from hospital are caused by a complex range of factors, but a key factor is how medical and social information about patients becomes fragmented during their stay. This is the conclusion of a study in...

Bristol Walk Fest 2021 - One of the UK's largest urban celebrations of walking with events throughout May

Bristol Walk Fest 2021 - One of the UK's largest urban celebrations of walking with events throughout May

30 April 2021

The month-long Bristol Walk Fest is underway this May with a ‘one stop shop’ website of walking in Bristol featuring an impressive variety of walking routes, groups, information and competitions. This year, Bristol Walk Fest has adapted its program...

Bristol Walk Fest returns in May with a COVID-19 secure edition

Bristol Walk Fest returns in May with a COVID-19 secure edition

25 February 2021

Bristol Walk Fest will return from May 1 to 31 2021 with a COVID-19 secure edition offering digital excursions, signposts to a variety of walking routes and activities, step-counting incentives and, it is hoped, a choice of guided and themed walks caterin...

New Bristol walking app is looking for local contributions

New Bristol walking app is looking for local contributions

2 February 2021

The Bristol City Council Sustainable Transport team are partnering with Age UK Bristol to launch a free walking app at the end of April. There will be a new Bristol section on an already established app called Go Jauntly. The app includes other areas ac...

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