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Health - - Living Newsletter
email: [email protected] Website: www.setrust.hscni.net/healthyliving.htm
Tel: (028) 9250 1373
South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust @SETrust
SUMMER Edition2019
Move M
ore Lose More C
hallenge
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1070 staff from across the South Eastern HSC Trust recently took part in a ‘Move More Lose More’ step and weight loss challenge.
Staff walked, ran and climbed a total of 333,451,441 steps, the equivalent of 167,418 miles or 6.5 times around the circumference of the world!!!
In total staff also lost an amazing 730lbs - 54 stone in weight!
A superb effort by all involved!
Contents
Take the first step to better health
Move More Lose More Challenge
Move More Lose More Challenge
Welcome to newly trained Volunteer Breastfeeding Peer Supporters
Smoking Cessation in Secondary Care Seminar, February 2019
Stop Smoking Team Partnership with Cardiology Department reports outstanding results
Become a Volunteer Befriender
Active Ageing Programme - Changing Patient’s Lives
Caring Communities
Support for people affected by Parkinson’s
Alcohol Awareness Week June 2019
Brief Interventions for Health and Wellbeing Advisers
HSC Values
Men’s Health Week at Castlewellan Parkrun
Solid Starts Weaning Programme
Scones - What’s inside?
Age Friendly
Disability Hub Ardarragh
TAKE THE FIRST STEP TO BETTER HEALTHSign up for our 12 week challenge!
Sign up today on Livewell OR Email [email protected]
WILL YOU BE THE TEAM TO BEAT?
Count your daily steps ORRecord your weekly weight loss
Sponsorship by generous partners for theinitiative will be donated to Kiwoko Hospital.
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Offers people aged 65 years and over in Ards, North Down, Lisburn and Down the opportunity to:-
Meet new people
Get out and about
Keep active and healthy
Have safe and secure homes
Access information and advice.
To use this service, call
(028) 9756 6934Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
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Welcome to newly trained Volunteer Breastfeeding Peer SupportersSouth Eastern HSC Trust have welcomed newly trained Volunteer Breastfeeding Peer Supporters.
The benefits of breastfeeding for women, children and society as a whole are well documented.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that infants be exclusively breastfed until six months of age, with breastfeeding continuing alongside the introduction of solid foods until at least two years of age. This offers optimum health advantages for both mother and baby.
Breastfeeding rates in the UK are some of the lowest in the world with 8 out of 10 women stopping breastfeeding before they want to.
Rates in Northern Ireland (46.1% at discharge) are the lowest in the UK.
Women learn how to breastfeed by watching other women feed their babies in a community setting; it should be normal and a part of daily life. This lack of a breastfeeding culture is one reason why breastfeeding rates in the UK and in particular, Northern Ireland, are so low. Peer breastfeeding programmes can play a crucial role in an attempt to improve this.
Breastfeeding peer support is mother to mother support given by a woman who has breastfed her own children and who, with
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specialised training, provides on-going information and support to mothers following discharge home from hospital. Peer supporters are also able to put mothers in touch with health professionals for further support and advice.
Breastfeeding peer support aims to fill a gap and is recommended by the World Health Organization and forms part of UK NICE guidance on maternal and child nutrition and on routine postnatal care. The Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Standards require that additional support such as peer support is provided and that services work together to ensure that mothers can get additional help as needed.
The Health Development Department within the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust are delighted to have trained their first cohort of Volunteer Breastfeeding Peer Supporters. The training provided was a pilot for the Public Health Agency based on the Solihull Approach.
The new Service, called BFF (BreastFeeding Friends) commenced in early May and will offer telephone and text support as well as additional support at local Breastfeeding Support Groups.
If you are interested in becoming a Breast Feeding Peer Supporter within the South Eastern HSC Trust area please contact:
Jacqui Henning email: [email protected]
BreastfeedingLocal Support Groups Picture
Come along for an informal chat,mother to mother support
and the latest breastfeeding information.
January 2019
Midwife:
Health Visitor:
Welcom
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reastfeeding Peer S
upporters
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The South Eastern HSC Trust Stop Smoking Team in partnership with the PHA hosted an event highlighting the importance of smoking cessation in the hospital setting. Guest speakers included:
Dr Sanjay Agrawal, Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), current Chair of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Tobacco Advisory Group and a Quality Improvement (QI) faculty member of the RCP currently delivering the Smoking Cessation QI course nationally.
Sanjay helped develop the British Thoracic Society (BTS) National Tobacco Audit in Secondary Care and the BTS Tobacco Quality Improvement Tool and was co-editor of the RCP report published in 2018 ‘Hiding in plain sight: treating tobacco dependency in the NHS’.
Dr Patrick Donnelly, Consultant Cardiologist, Ulster Hospital, South Eastern HSC Trust.Mr Peter Gordon, Consultant Maxillo-Facial Surgeon, Ulster Hospital, South Eastern HSC Trust.Mrs Siobhan O’Brien, Operational Lead for Tobacco Control, Public Health Agency.
Key findings from the audit:
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econdary Care S
eminar February 2019
Smoking Cessation in Secondary Care Seminar, February 2019
1. 25% of hospital in-patients were not asked if they smoked 2. Electronic capture of smoking status was routinely captured in only 34% of organisations 3. Only 25% of patients who smoked were asked if they would like to quit 4. Only 1 in 13 smokers were referred to a Stop Smoking Service for treatment of tobacco addiction 5. Only 5% of patients were offered nicotine replacement therapy of those patients not referred to Smoking Cessation Services 6. Comprehensive pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation was not available on formulary in many hospitals 7. Formal referral pathways to hospital or Community Stop Smoking Services were not developed in 1 in 6 organisations 8. Only 1 in 16 organisations completely enforced smoke-free grounds 9. 50% of organisations had no regular smoking cessation training for staff10. 50% of organisations had no hospital based smoking cessation practitioners.
The event also promoted an exciting pilot which is about to be rolled out in the South Eastern HSC Trust were a Smoking Cessation Referral Pathway will be included on NIECR.
This could potentially be a game changer for smoking cessation in the hospital setting.
Included in picture are Seamus McGoran, Interim Chief Executive; Dr Sanjay Agrawal, Consultant Respirary Intensivist; Siobhan O’Brien, PHA and South Eastern HSC Trust Stop Smoking Team.
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The Stop Smoking Team in South Eastern HSC Trust and the Cardiology Departments in the Ulster, Lagan Valley and Downe hospitals have a long history of excellent partnership working.
Recent achievements are outstanding, and staff deserve to be commended for their commitment to improving their clients’ health, and also to reducing the financial costs to NHS budgets by supporting smokers to quit.
This partnership with cardiology has been enhanced by the introduction of the new Cardiac Centre at the Ulster Hospital in January 2019.
The new centre which is focused on early access, diagnostics and interventions provides more opportunities for cardiology clients to engage with the Stop Smoking Service.
Latest figures for Public Health Agency show 43% of cardiology clients who enrolled with the Stop Smoking Service in 2018/19 remained quit when reviewed at one year.
Considering the nature of tobacco addiction, and the challenge for many smokers to stop, these results are excellent.
Stop S
moking Team
Partnership w
ith Cardiology D
epartment
Stop Smoking Team Partnership with Cardiology Department reports outstanding results
Public Health Agency expects a yearly quit rate of around 20% so South Eastern HSC Trust has more than doubled this target.
Although traditionally seen as an issue for primary care, recent evidence has shown that smoking cessation interventions, commenced within secondary care, can be both effective and cost-effective.
Behind these figures many are long term, ‘hard to reach’ smokers who have now taken control over their smoking which for many years may have been controlling them, while damaging their health and their finances.
The South Eastern HSC Trust Stop Smoking Team hope to continue this partnership and indeed forge some new links particularly within the surgical directorate.
Photos include Cardiopulmonary Specialist Team, Downe Hospital and Cardiology Staff, Ulster Hospital.
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Ray (Volunteer Befriender) has been visiting Phil for over a year now. Phil says “It’s great to have a mate” and explains that they have so much in common and enjoy each others conversation.
Ray has been widely traveled, they both enjoy similar interests in cars and motor bikes. Ray enjoys Phil’s many stories about his travels and Phil enjoys Ray’s stories about his job in transport.
Becom
e a Volunteer Befriender
Become a Volunteer BefrienderThink about being someone’s mate and become a Volunteer Befriender
“It’s great to have a mate!”
“Hey Ray thanks for being a Volunteer…… he gets me
and I get him. This is a great guy if we could get more
people like him”.
The Caring Communities Safe & Well Service aims to address loneliness and social isolation by providing information, signposting and advice on a range of services that will enable an older person to live safely and independently at home.
The Caring Communities Safe & Well Service offers an older person a Volunteer Befriender to visit for a chat and companionship one hour per week. The Service covers the areas of Newtownards and North Down, Lisburn and Down.
If you are inspired by Phil and Ray’s story and have one to two hours a week that you could spare to make an older person’s day less lonely then please contact Caring Communities Safe & Well.
Caring Communities Safe & WellTel: (028) 9756 6934.
Do you know that being lonely is as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day and more harmful to health than being obese?
‘Make someone’s day a little less lonely’The South Eastern HSC Trust are recruiting Volunteer
Befrienders for their Caring Communities Safe and Well service in Ards, North Down, Lisburn and Down.
If you have some spare time and would like to befriend an older person in your area who is lonely or socially isolated
then please get in touch.
To hear more give us a call (028) 9756 6934 Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
or email [email protected]
Volunteer Befriending
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SAFE & WELL
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For further information on the Active Ageing Programme please refer to:
Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Area: www.theleisureplex.com/activities/active-ageing
www.moirafriendshipgroup.co.uk/Tel: Alison (028) 9261 2119
Ards and North Downwww.leisureardsandnorthdown.com/fitness/active-ageing
www.bangoraurora.com/bangor_aurora/CLASS_ActiveAgeing [email protected] Tel: (028) 9127 7418
www.peninsulahealthyliving.org/ Tel: Carol (028) 4273 8332
Active Ageing Programme - Changing People’s Lives!
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Service User Story
“I was always active until I became chair bound with arthritis. I was so bad that my bed had to be brought downstairs as I couldn’t go upstairs.
I was brought meals daily and thought I would never be able to walk again. I felt that I was just being ‘left’ and the only people I saw daily were carers
and physios. It was awful.
What spurred me on was that last summer I was so lonely. I just sat there and couldn’t be in the sun much as my skin doesn’t react well to it. I just knew I was doing the wrong
thing sitting there, I was at the stage I could hardly move my joints. I thought ‘I’m destroying myself’.
I rang the leisure centre and was told to come along. I thought I wouldn’t be able to do any of the exercises, but it has done me so much good. I’ve met a lot of people and
just think to myself ‘Isn’t this fabulous!’
It has helped me considerably. I’ve lost a couple of pounds too. My heart was breaking before. I had moved from Tyrone and had never met many friends around Lisburn before, so when my husband died I nearly had a breakdown and was so lonely. Since starting the Active Ageing Programme I am more
active - I’ve even been to line dancing and water aerobics in the one week. I still get nervous about it, but I absolutely love it”.
Offers people aged 65 years and over in Ards, North Down, Lisburn and Down the opportunity to:-
Meet new people
Get out and about
Keep active and healthy
Have safe and secure homes
Access information and advice.
To use this service, call
(028) 9756 6934Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
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Support for people affected by Parkinson’s
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Roisin Coulter is a Parkinson’s Local Adviser
working in the South Eastern Health and Social
Care Trust area.
“One of the best parts of my job is being able to make practical differences for people affected by Parkinson’s”.
Support for people affected by P
arkinson’s
Over 3700 people in Northern Ireland have Parkinson’s and over 700 people in the South Eastern HSC Trust area are living with the condition.
• Parkinson’s is a progressive neurological condition with no cure. This means that it causes problems in the brain and gets worse over time
• More than 470 people will be diagnosed with Parkinson’s in Northern Ireland this year - about 9 people every week
• The number of people diagnosed with Parkinson’s in the UK is about 145,000 that’s around 1 adult in every 350.
145,000 Parkinson’s1 adult
in every 350
In UK
Parkinson’s UK have a team of Parkinson’s Local Advisers working across Northern Ireland providing support for people whether they have the condition, are a carer, friend or family member of someone with Parkinson’s.
Roisin has worked with people with Parkinson’s in the South Eastern HSC Trust area for over six years and provides support to many people affected by Parkinson’s from those who have been recently diagnosed, to those who have been living with the condition for many years.
“My job is very varied and no one day is the same as the next. It is a very rewarding role and I have great job satisfaction being able to make practical differences to people’s lives. From help with benefits to managing symptoms and opening doors for people to engage
in activities run by Parkinson’s UK Northern Ireland such as our exercise programmes and Parkinson’s café for people who have been diagnosed at an early age”.
Parkinson’s local advisers help if people need support with anything relating to their life with Parkinson’s from benefits to emotional support.
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Support for people affected by P
arkinson’s
Parkinson’s local advisers have a wide range of knowledge and expertise about Parkinson’s and know about services available in each local area. They are there to turn to so no-one has to face Parkinson’s alone.
Other services provided by Parkinson’s UK Northern Ireland include ‘Taking Control’ grants for an amount up to £1,500 to fund electrical items, respite care, specialist equipment or activities.
To get in contact with your Parkinson’s Local Adviser or to find out more information contact:
Roisin Coulter email: [email protected] Tel: 0344 225 3794
To find out more about Parkinson’s and Parkinson’s UK Northern Ireland visit:
www.parkinsons.org.uk
To keep up to date with our work, like us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/parkinsonsukni
“Sometimes my role is to be a listening ear, someone who has an empathy to the condition and can help talk through issues that people maybe don’t feel able
to share yet with those close to them”.
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Alcohol Awareness Week June 2019During Alcohol Awareness Week some extra things happened to increase people’s understanding of the potential harm excessive drinking can cause.
On top of the sore heads and washed out feeling that comes hand and hand with a hangover, excessive alcohol use is related to over 200 medical conditions.
You might have seen the posters on buses or knew of awareness sessions that were happening that week.
It is all aimed at being safer and reducing harm associated with our drinking.
One of the key initiatives during Alcohol Awareness Week was to encourage everyone to take a look at their drinking through a short test at:
www.alcoholandyouni.com/audit
If you want to see more about what is happening in the alcohol and drug world or want to find sources
of support visit: www.drugsandalcoholni.info/
If you require further information please contact:
Ed SiplerHealth Development Specialist
email: [email protected]
The test starts with simple 3 questions about your drinking that takes only a few minutes.
If you did not do the quiz during Alcohol Awareness Week go ahead and do it now.
What you do after that is entirely up to you.
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A new on-line training resource has been developed and produced by Queens University for the Public Health Agency.
The aim of the course is to equip health and wellbeing advisers with the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver effective brief interventions in practice.
Having completed this course, you will be able to:
• Comfortably raise the subjects of smoking tobacco, consuming excess alcohol or discuss physical inactivity with patients/clients as part of your routine practice
• Assess patients/clients for risk and their motivation to change
• Assist patients/clients by scheduling an intervention appointment, signposting to relevant support service and/or providing additional information sources.
To access this training resource please click here and find under the ‘Online Courses’ tab.
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HSC core values
Men’s Health Week at Castlewellan Parkrun June 2019 Castlewellan Parkrun joined South Eastern HSC Trust Health Development Department in promoting Men’s Heath Week on Saturday 15 June 2019.
This year’s theme is ‘MAKE THE TIME’ and ‘TAKE THE TIME’.
The focus is about improving the health of males to recognise and acknowledge that MEN’S HEALTH MATTERS!
However, this is not enough on its own. It also needs to be followed up by action and this requires effort.
The overall aims of Men’s Health Week are to:
1. Heighten awareness of preventable health problems for males of all ages
2. Support men and boys to engage in healthier lifestyle choices/activities
3. Encourage the early detection and treatment of health difficulties in males.
Therefore, during the week, everyone is asked to ‘MAKE THE TIME’ and ‘TAKE THE TIME’ to do something realistic and practical that will make a positive difference to the health of both themselves and the men and boys that they have contact with and influence over.
So why not ‘TAKE THE TIME’ to register with your local parkrun at:
www.parkrun.org.uk/register/ (link is external)
And ‘MAKE THE TIME’ to meet every Saturday at 9.30am!
Everyone is very welcome regardless of age/ability etc. and if you don’t feel like you can run the 5km course, you can walk it as part of Parkwalk.
Men’s Health Matters!
‘MAKE THE TIME’ and
‘TAKE THE TIME’.
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Men’s H
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arkrun June 2019
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Solid Starts weaning programme was developed to support parents in adopting healthy weaning practices at home. Parents are given the opportunity to develop cooking skills and acquire nutritional knowledge and confidence in their ability to provide healthy weaning foods for their baby.
It is a very practical based programme and allows for learning to take place in a very relaxed and sociable environment. Parents are encouraged to discuss their feelings around weaning, their worries and what they have found that works as regards to infant feeding.
The programme consisted of 3 sessions.
Sessions 1. First foods: Suitable first foods are discussed as well as looking at appropriate finger foods.
Sessions 2. Moving on: These are foods babies can move on to at around 7 months.
Sessions 3. Family foods: This encourages parents to look at the rest of the family and the importance of healthy eating in general.
As part of the programme we cook weaning foods using core ingredients eg. potato and carrot. We then buy a jar of commercial processed potato and carrot weaning food. Parents are asked to taste both foods and give feedback.
Parents always comment that the commercial process food was not at all nice and could not compare to the whole food version, this is evident from the evaluation comments below.
Solid Starts Weaning Programme
Evaluation feedback in general is always very positive, in particular confidence building in regard to weaning and having a relaxed and fun time meeting other mums.
This programme has always been very rewarding for the facilitator. To see the change in parents’ knowledge and attitude around healthy eating and also to see a visible change in confidence and skills in cooking weaning foods.
Yes, the use of natural ingredients �Yes, bought more healthy snacks for my baby.
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Yes, able to ask questions about weaning that boosted my confidence as a mum
�Yes, less likely to buy ready made foods �Yes, I probably would have bought jars, would be more likely to cook from scratch now.
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For further information please contact:DOWN Surestart
5 - 7 Mount CrescentDownpatrick
BT30 6AFTel: (028) 4461 3630
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Did participating in the programme change any of your ideas about weaning? If so what way?
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Picture yourself- it’s a busy morning at work, maybe you’ve not had a chance to have a breakfast and you’re faced with an array of delicious looking scones - just too tempting to walk past?
Or maybe you are out for a coffee and a catch up in a café and you order a wee scone to go with your hot drink - sound familiar?
You might have noticed that those ‘wee scones’ aren’t so ‘wee’ anymore! Anecdotal evidence shows that scones are increasing in size. But what nutrition are we getting with our scone?
Recently the Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland published a report on scones samples found in coffee shops across all 11 Council areas in Northern Ireland.
The result showed:
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The highest number of calories in one scone was 756Kcal, which was also the scone with the most sugar - 39g.
This is almost 8 teaspoons of sugar in one scone, which is more than the amount of sugar in a can of regular cola and more than the 30g free sugar maximum amount that an adult is recommended per day.
Free sugars is the sugar added to food or drinks, or the sugar found in honey or syrups and unsweetened fruit and vegetable juices, including smoothies. Most of us eat too much of these types of sugar which can lead to weight gain and tooth decay. Whilst this scone might be a ‘one off’, on average scones had 20g of sugar in them - that’s 4 teaspoons.
In terms of calories a scone from a high street café will provide on average 408Kcals. Plain scones contain less than scones which include chocolate in them. However the size and nutritional content of scones varied widely across the country. Remember when you add spread and jam to a scone the fat, calories and sugar content will increase too!
It’s worth noting that the recommended daily intake of calories for a woman is about 2000kcals. The survey found that 5 sampled scones had over 600kcals - which is 30% of this intake. If we eat an extra 100kcal a day more than we need then this becomes an extra 10 pounds of weight gain over a year.
Unfortunately in Northern Ireland 64% of adults are classed as overweight or obese which can lead to health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and can increase the risk of some cancers.
250 - 260Kcal80g scone
500Kcal150g scone
750Kcal230g scone
Photograph courtesy of Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland
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What can we do?
Whilst coffee shops could consider making their scones smaller and providing nutritional information to customers this might take some time, meanwhile we could try swapping our scones for alternatives - lower in calories, fat, sugar and salt:
• Or you could try choosing a smaller scone or sharing a large scone
• Or if you are buying a pre-packaged snack, try looking at the food labelling to compare the sugar/fat/saturated fat and salt of the snack you buy.
The British Heart Foundation has a handy booklet for reading food labels - see details below.
Sources:
www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/document/nutritional-content-of-scones-re-port_0.pdf
www.choosetolivebetter.com/content/eating-and-drinking-well
www.health-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/health/hsni-first-results-17-18.pdf
www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/how-does-sugar-in-our-diet-affect-our-health/
Food labelling information:
www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/publications/healthy-eating-and-drinking/taking-con-trol-of-food-portions-and-labels
Energy Sugar Teaspoons of sugar
Fruit Scone 414Kcal 24g 5
Energy Sugar Teaspoons of sugar
2 small pancakes 162Kcal 9.8g 22 slices of wheaten 232Kcal 3.6g <12 slices of white/wholemeal bread 190Kcal 2.2g <1
Instead try:
For further information contact:
Fiona ArmstrongHealth Development Dietitian
email: [email protected] Tel: (028) 9041 1797
It might sound obvious but the bigger the scone then the higher the calorie, sugar, fat and salt content. It’s very difficult to know the nutritional content of the scones we are buying in coffee shops as they are not pre-packaged. They don’t need to follow the law about having nutritional content labelled.
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ge Friendly
As more people live longer we need to plan to ensure that public services and infrastructure designed and implemented today, will still be relevant to the councils population in future years.
If people are living longer it’s important that they are healthy and active for longer too.
We want older people to feel valued, included and respected in our society, with a strong voice and a participatory approach to service design and delivery - ‘Nothing about us without us”.
Listening to comments during the consultation process for the Community Plan, reviewing the statistical data and holding workshops with older people led Lisburn and Castlereagh’s Strategic Community Planning Partnership to agree to work towards the World Health Organisation’s Age Friendly status.
Working towards the Age Friendly status requires indicative steps and a key step is to establish a structure to support the Age Friendly Process.
To date, we have established an Age Friendly Alliance with representatives from the public, voluntary and community sectors including older people who are working together to look at actions, covering eight domains (or areas) such as:
• Community and Health
• Communication and Information
• Civic Participation
• Housing
• Transport.
Over the next three years the Age FriendlyAlliance will be concentrating on the three priority domains.
Age FriendlyThe three priority domains are.
• Social Participation
• Communication and Information
• Community and Health Services.
At present a draft action plan has been produced and is currently with the Age Friendly Alliance for approval.
We will be engaging with community groups - older people in particular - to get their views and ideas on how we should be shaping our council area and making it a great place to grow older.
The Age Friendly Action Plan is a guide to what we should be striving for to make Lisburn and Castlereagh an Age Friendly place to live.
For further information please contact:
Gareth McCausland Tel: (028) 9244 7327
email: [email protected]
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isability Hub A
rdarragh
Designed by Publications/Communications Department
The Disability Hub is based in Ardarragh in the Downshire Estate in Downpatrick. It is a mix of people with disabilities, community and voluntary organisations and South Eastern HSC Trust staff.
In the future it will be rolled out in Lisburn and Ards and North Down.
The Hub provides different opportunities for adults living with physical disability, hearing loss and sight loss.
We offer education and support through courses to help improve their health and wellbeing.
We also do activities in the local community for example boccia in Down Leisure Centre and have offered courses such as first aid training and mindfulness.
Our courses are open to family, carers and those living in the community.
Disability Hub Ardarragh
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Recent Sign Language Class
For further information contact:
Petra FultonDisability Hub Coordinator
Tel: 07595 609 592
email: [email protected]
