'People in Blackpool have far fewer years of healthy life than in other parts of the country.'
Many people in Blackpool start to become frail in their mid-forties, the town’s director of social care has warned.
A meeting of the council’s Adult Social Care and Health Scrutiny Committee heard one of the main priorities of the ICB was to intervene earlier to prevent people falling into poor health. Ms Smith said: “In Blackpool frailty starts in the mid-forties for a lot of our population who have drug and alcohol problems, and major issues with their relationships and housing.”She said it was vital for people to build up resilience early in their lives to prevent frailty.
Among the priorities is to stop people from smoking, including vaping which the meeting was told was not shown to deter people from tobacco products.“Our analysis says that if we do nothing else, stopping smoking in the town will have the biggest impact.”
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