Retirement wellbeing: choosing health and choosing life
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We employ Well-being Advisors at each of our locations, offering our own assessment tool and screening programme based on 10 key factors:
• Diet
• Mobility
• Bladder and Bowel Health
• Heart and Circulation
• Breathing
• Hearing and Sight
• Skin
• Fitness
• Spiritual and Psychological Well-being
• Sleep
Each resident receives a Well-being Score and a radar diagram which provides them with a visual representation of their current health in the above areas and enables us to map their progress over time.
We also offer a drop-in service where any resident with health concerns or issues can meet with a Well-being Advisor to share their concerns and receive appropriate information, advice and guidance or referral to a GP for further investigation.
Our residents value our Well-being Service and research has proved that integrating preventative healthcare and screening services as part of our overall offering is better for residents and also for health-care commissioners, with a 38% reduction on total NHS costs for our residents.
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