Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Conclusion 6
8th Report – Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society
Published 22 May 2026
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
Health and Social Care Committee Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
Frailty is not an inevitable or irreversible aspect of ageing, and early intervention offers significant opportunities to prevent or slow its progression. Exercise programmes can reverse frailty, reduce the risk of developing dementia and improve outcomes for people living with dementia. However, these benefits will only be realised at scale if underpinned by a coherent national strategy. These interventions must also be understood by commissioners, and prescribed and delivered by health professionals, in a comparable way to drug treatments. (Conclusion, Paragraph 26)
From: Health and Social Care Committee, 8th Report – Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society (HC 1180), 22 May 2026
Government response
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