Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 21
8th Report – Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society
Published 22 May 2026
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The government must start a national conversation about ageing which talks about getting older in a more positive way, challenges assumptions about unavoidable and irreversible decline and motivates people to remain active. (Conclusion, Paragraph 74)
From: Health and Social Care Committee, 8th Report – Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society (HC 1180), 22 May 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 22 July 2026, 102 days ago.