Prevention Package for Older People : Department of Health - Publications

The prevention package raises the focus on prevention as a means of ensuring good health, well-being and independence in later life by promoting and encouraging uptake of comprehensive health and social care services for older people. Announced in 2008, the health prevention package was launched on 22 July 2009. As health and well-being are major concerns for people in later years the health prevention package forms the Department of Health’s main contribution to the government’s ageing strategy Building a Society for All Ages which was launched on 13 July 2009 by Phil Hope, Minister of State for Care Services and Angela Eagle, Minister of State for Pensions and an Ageing Society. Read More: