Our vision is to co-create a society where all older people have the choice, support, and empowerment to live more active and meaningful lives.
Balanced Lives at Home – Action For Elders offers vital support for older people.
We introduced Balanced Lives at Home - a new programme of online services - to help older people and those who care for them through Covid-19. During the past year, we repositioned our in-person Balanced Lives programme to become a multi-faceted online help resource for local individuals, volunteers, and community groups. We offer exercise sessions, social groups, and mental wellbeing support. This is a bespoke service, provided by experts and tailored to individual needs.
Balanced Lives at Home
We offer exercise and wellbeing programmes live via Zoom every week.
These resources are FREE - Just Sign Up: https://www.actionforelders.org.uk/live-sessions/
We also offer on-demand programmes via our website: https://www.actionforelders.org.uk
and YouTube https://bit.ly/ActionForEldersYouTubeChannel
Balanced Lives At Home – Our Digital Inclusion Programme:
- Live Weekly ‘Zoom’ Mobility Classes - Daytime and Evening sessions available.
- Live weekly Wellbeing Q&A sessions to help with better eating, anxiety, stress, wellbeing.
- Monthly Book Club: Perfect for finding new friends among people with similar interests.
- On-demand videos: Improve strength and mobility, aid positive thinking, including videos on specific health issues such as arthritis, osteoporosis, and falls.
- Hands-on digital support available to help with digital problems or connection issues.
- New online programmes on the way include music club and general exercise groups for more healthy older individuals.
Our strategy for the next two years is to further embrace digital inclusion with face-to-face community groups and right now we are working on building back to 'normality'.
We actively welcome referrals to our Balanced Lives programmes from GPs, health professionals, community workers, social services, carers.
For referrals, please contact Stephanie: referrals(at)actionforelders.org.uk.
For further information please contact Rhysian, our Community Engagement Officer 07791 518068rhysian.pengilley(at)actionforelders.org.uk
