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Healthy Lifestyle

Resources that can be used by health and care professionals to facilitate discussions about healthy lifestyle. 

Healthy Lifestyle

  • A Healthier Me

    Organisation: Mencap
    Type: Guidance Pack
    Date published: August 2021
    Description: A guidance pack to help people with a learning disability understand how food and drink choices can affect their health - and how to make small changes.

  • Breathing Techniques - NHS

    Organisation: NHS Coventry and Warwickshire
    Type: Film
    Date published: 2014
    Description: A short film about breathing techniques produced by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust for people with a learning disability.

  • Cost of Living Resources

    Organisation: Learning Disability England
    Type: Information and resources
    Date published: Winter 2022/23
    Description: Shared information and resources, including accessible information, to help members with the increases in the cost of living - including saving money and staying warm and well.

  • Diabetes and Me

    Organisation: Diabetes UK
    Type: Online resources
    Date published: March 2021
    Description: A collection of resources about managing diabetes - from blood sugars and importance of exercise to insulin pumps and and foot problems.

  • Easy deep breathing/relaxation exercise

    Organisation: Learning Disability CAMHS
    Type: Film
    Date published: July 2020
    Description: A short video to support young people with a Learning Disability to learn an easy relaxation technique using deep breathing. It demonstrates a simple breathing exercise to induce calm when feeling upset, worried or anxious. This breathing exercise can also be used at any time to promote relaxation.

  • Health matters: preventing Type 2 Diabetes

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance (general population)
    Date published: May 2018
    Description: This professional resource outlines how to optimise the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) in order to identify those already found to be at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and offer support that will help them reduce their risk of developing the disease.

  • Hydration

    Organisation: NHS (Scotland)
    Type: Guidance on good hydration
    Date published: 2016
    Description: Information about staying hydrated and signs and symptoms of dehydration - including a urine colour chart.

  • Keeping bowels healthy and getting poo in the loo

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Film
    Date published: March 2023
    Description: This video talks about how to keep bowel healthy and getting the poo in the loo (potty training).

  • NHS Healthier Families

    Organisation: NHS
    Type: Food facts, recipes, activities.
    Date published: 2021
    Description: Easy ways to eat well and move more

  • Obstructive sleep apnoea/ hypopnoea syndrome and obesity hypoventilation syndrome in over 16s

    Organisation: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance (General) for healthcare professionals including dentists, commissioners and providers, families/carers.
    Date published: August 2021
    Description: The guideline covers the diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnoea/ hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS), obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with OSAHS (COPD–OSAHS overlap syndrome) in people over 16.

  • Oral Health for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Academic Health Science Networks/NHS
    Type: Film and guidance
    Date published: October 2021
    Description: This video is for carers of people with a learning disability to assist them manage oral health.

  • Relaxation - NHS

    Organisation: NHS Coventry and Warwickshire
    Type: Video (YouTube)
    Date published: 2014
    Description: A short film about relaxation produced by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust for people with a learning disability.

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