Health and Wellbeing Guide

The Health and Wellbeing guide was produced by the Worcester WiNN Team in 2007. It contains information on Support Services, Social Groups and Exercise Options for people living in the Worcester City area. It also contains useful non-emergency telephone numbers.

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The Health and Wellbeing Guide.  (373.75 KB)Cover

The Health and Wellbeing Guide Contents  (632.01 KB)

Guide to Exercise Opportunities for the Over 55's

The Guide to Exercise for the Over 55's was produced by the Worcester WiNN Team in 2007. It contains information on excercise opportunites across Worcester city .

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WiNN Services

Over the two year period of the WiNN project in Worcester various services were set up to benefit older people living in the WiNN target area. Funding has been secured for the majority of these services for the financial year 2008/9.

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WiNN Services in Worcester  (126.53 KB)

OLDER PEOPLE'S NETWORK

Meets bi-monthly, usually at the City Community Centre

A network of service providers from the voluntary and statutory sectors who work with older people across Worcester City. The network meets bi-monthly.  Members of the network share information and resources, give presentations on their services and explore opportunites for joint working.

Information and Networking  

As well as supporting the establishment of the above two networks the WiNN Team has also developed a great deal of useful information on key local services and opportunities for older people to improve their health and wellbeing. This information has subsequently been widely distributed to key agencies and local centres.

In particular 2000 copies of the comprehensive ‘health and wellbeing guide’ have been distributed with information on support services, social groups and exercise options, along with thousands more individual leaflets on each of these areas.

Information boards have been set up at local community centres, libraries and GP practices to promote opportunities for older people, and social groups have received regular updated information about the range of support services available to them.

Also, through ongoing review and support of services local agencies have started to engage a lot more with social groups to promote their services, resulting in increased take up.

Briefing sessions for voluntary sector agencies on social care and health services have been organised and well received, along with similar sessions by voluntary sector agencies for sheltered housing wardens.

All of these measures help to inform people more of the opportunities available to them and also support joined up working between agencies.

Lastly, we are working with the existing Worcester older people’s forum to bring them together with local residents who have been actively involved in the WiNN project (through the management and campaign groups) to develop a stronger voice for older people in the city.