Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

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Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

• Craig Melville and Sarah Hamilton
• University of Glasgow

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Health inequalities

• Shorter life expectancy
• Increased health needs
• Barriers to accessing services
• Current policies widening the gap

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Promoting healthy lifestyles

• Lifestyle and health behaviours
• Population screening e.g. mammography
• Wider determinants of health
• Disadvantage
• Choice and autonomy
• Employment
• Relationships
• Spirituality

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Healthy eating
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• Physical activity

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Physical activity
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Which types of physical activity?
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How much physical activity?
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Why promote a healthy lifestyle?
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Barriers to change

• b policy guidelines
•   b residential staffing and resourcing
•   b location, availability and accessibility of
  leisure services
•    b personal finance and budgeting
•   b lack of choice and autonomy
•   b work/life concerns
•    b weather
•    b safety
•    b transportation
•    b health concerns/injuries
•    b negative support from carers.

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Current recommendations
b 60-90 minutes moderate exercise/ day b
Mediterranean diet b 30 calories at breakfast b
Red wine b Wear sunscreen
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Group work

• Sam is an adult with mild learning disabilities.
  Sam lives in supported accommodation, and attends
  a day centre 3 days a week. Sam does not travel
  unaccompanied. Sam likes watching TV and does so
  every day. Currently, Sam has an unrestricted
  diet, but the GP has recommended that Sam would
  benefit from losing some weight.
• Sam has agreed to participate in a pilot project
  aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles for adults
  with learning disabilities. Sam has been assigned
  a Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator whose role is to
  help Sam plan and implement health-related
  lifestyle improvements.
• The Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator has invited
  you, and Sam, and other members of Sams support
  network to a meeting today. This meeting is a
  chance for everyone to discuss their thoughts on
  ways to improve Sams lifestyle.
• The Healthy Lifestyle Co-ordinator is the
  chairperson of this meeting. The group has 30
  minutes to reach agreement on 3 health-related
  lifestyle improvements that Sam is willing able
  to implement.