Self care

Self care is all about feeling confident to manage your own health and wellbeing.

It covers every aspect of living a healthy life, from making sure we eat a healthy diet to looking after ourselves when recovering from illness.

For people living with a long term condition, self care can bring independence, self worth and the ability to lead a life that's as near normal as possible.

To support people in Salford to look after their health and wellbeing, the Self Care Team has developed the Keeping Well programme.

What does the course involve?

The Keeping Well course is open to anyone who wants to make positive lifestyle change. The group sessions are designed to allow participants to work together to develop the knowledge and skills to make successful change.

Over five 90 minute sessions the course will help participants to:

• Understand health and the benefits of self care
• Learn how to set realistic and achievable goals for change
• Explore how to increase confidence, self esteem and become more assertive
• Develop ways of coping with stress, managing anxiety and learn relaxation techniques
• Understand how to use health services appropriately and manage minor ailments
• Find out where to access accurate and up to date health information and learn about local services available to you

Participants completing the course are also offered the option of going on to a step up course around keeping well with a long term conditions.

Who is it for?

We feel the course is particularly relevant to:

• People with a long term condition who are interested in developing their self management skills
• People at high risk of developing long term conditions who wish to make changes to their lifestyle
• People who feel they need additional support to help them make behavioural changes
  • This includes people who have struggled to make and maintain changes in the past
• People who are specifically interested in improving confidence and managing stress

We can deliver to existing groups as well and have adapted courses available for people with learning difficulties and those without English as a first language. We are more than happy to discuss option to further tailor the courses to the needs of specific groups.

Who to contact

Name

Self Care

Address

Unity House
Salford Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
M27 5AW
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Telephone

0161 212 6312

Email

kris.mackay@salford.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 20 April 2012