Comment: | Ageing Well UK, a part of Age Concern, is a health promotion initiative that enables you to take control of your own health and promote healthy lifestyles to your peers. The programme recruits and trains volunteers who are aged fifty or over to become Senior Health Mentors. Volunteers then make contact with isolated people and community groups, providing vital links to health services and opportunities in local communities.
Volunteers act as positive role models as 'normal everyday people' reducing the common perception that health is linked only to medical services.
Ageing Well projects focus on providing advice on a range of issues, including diet/nutrition, physical activity and falls prevention, plus they offer services within the context of positive and holistic health. Projects work in partnership with local health providers, addressing local health improvement programmes, NSF and other targets. |
