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What is Social Prescribing?
Many things that affect our health can’t be treated by doctors or medicine alone.
Like loneliness, debt, or stress due to financial pressures or poor housing.
Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.
This could involve a Social Prescribing Link Worker or an equivalent role:
- Helping someone who is isolated join a befriending group, an art class or a community gardening project, based on what works for them.
- Connecting someone struggling with financial stress to a service that helps with managing debt or claiming benefits.
- Supporting someone with dementia to join a dementia choir, enabling them to maintain a sense of social connection.
- Working with someone with high blood pressure to take up a form of exercise that they’re comfortable with.
Social prescribing can help change the circumstances that can make people unwell. It can empower people to manage existing health problems, to get the right benefits or get back into employment. It can help people to connect and to grow in confidence.
Spring Social Prescribing Northamptonshire
Spring is a community-driven support network, here to help people in Northamptonshire manage their health and wellbeing. The programme is supported by the NHS and Public Health Northamptonshire.
For further information and to Self-Refer Following the link: https://www.springnorthamptonshire.org/home
CareChoices - the leading provider of social care information for Care Seekers
Care Choices is an independent publisher. We started out with a mission to provide useful information to people looking for care, pulling together all they needed in one place. We worked with local authorities to produce regional care directories, listing all the care homes and home care agencies in local areas. Over 25 years later, we are still producing these directories, with essential information explaining how the care funding system works, what types of care are available, and who to contact when you or a loved one needs care.
The Care Choices website acts as a companion to these guides and explains in clear terms all people need to know to understand how the adult social care system operates as well as providing an easy search for care tool to help anyone looking for care to find the care homes and home care agencies that are right for them. CLICK HERE
Age Well Northamptonshire
The Ageing Well team gives older patients the support they need to look after their own health and wellbeing. They provide emotional and practical support to patients aged 65+, who are at high risk of health deterioration / hospital admission. It is a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach with GPs and other health professionals working with social services, Age UK and Northamptonshire Carers. They enable patients to live independently in the community.
They want to ensure that older and frail people in Northamptonshire can choose well, stay well and live well in the community. This includes improving how and when patients can access the care that they need. The Age Well teams will, where possible, see people in the convenience and comfort of their own homes. Click Here for more info.
The Age Well teams can work with you to:
- agree a support plan
- ensure you have any mobility and monitoring equipment you need at home
- assist you in accessing local social and exercise groups to get specialist advice and guidance
- arrange a review with a GP, pharmacy colleague, and a nurse to discuss the issues that matter to you
- link you with a befriender if you choose
- review the benefits you are receiving to make sure you are getting the ones that are available to you
- ensure that those caring for you are supported