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Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles. Craig Melville and Sarah Hamilton University of Glasgow. Health inequalities. Shorter life expectancy Increased health needs Barriers to accessing services Current policies “widening the gap”. Promoting healthy lifestyles. Lifestyle and health behaviours

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Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

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  1. Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Craig Melville and Sarah Hamilton University of Glasgow

  2. Health inequalities • Shorter life expectancy • Increased health needs • Barriers to accessing services • Current policies “widening the gap”

  3. Promoting healthy lifestyles Lifestyle and health behaviours Population screening e.g. mammography Wider determinants of health: • Disadvantage • Choice and autonomy • Employment • Relationships • Spirituality

  4. Healthy eating

  5. Physical activity

  6. Physical activity

  7. Which types of physical activity?

  8. How much physical activity?

  9. Why promote a healthy lifestyle?

  10. Barriers to change bpolicy guidelines ·  b residential staffing and resourcing ·  b location, availability and accessibility of leisure services ·   b personal finance and budgeting ·  b lack of choice and autonomy ·  b work/life concerns ·   b weather ·   b safety ·   b transportation ·   b health concerns/injuries ·   b negative support from carers.

  11. Current recommendations b 60-90 minutes moderate exercise/ day b Mediterranean diet b 30% calories at breakfast b Red wine b Wear sunscreen

  12. Group work Sam is an adult with mild learning disabilities. Sam lives in supported accommodation, and attends a day centre 3 days a week. Sam does not travel unaccompanied. Sam likes watching TV and does so every day. Currently, Sam has an unrestricted diet, but the GP has recommended that Sam would benefit from losing some weight. Sam has agreed to participate in a pilot project aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles for adults with learning disabilities. Sam has been assigned a Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator whose role is to help Sam plan and implement health-related lifestyle improvements. The Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator has invited you, and Sam, and other members of Sam’s support network to a meeting today. This meeting is a chance for everyone to discuss their thoughts on ways to improve Sam’s lifestyle. The Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator is the chairperson of this meeting. The group has 30 minutes to reach agreement on 3 health-related lifestyle improvements that Sam is willing & able to implement.

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