ACTIVE LIVING LINKS

► Active Living Home

► Contact Details

► Physical Activity Guide (PDF)
 

► Safe Exercise During & After Pregnancy

► Ante- & Post-Natal Exercises

RELATED LINKS

► Active Life

► Sports Development

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WIGAN PARTNERSHIPS FOR OLDER PEOPLE PROJECTS
(POPPs)

The Active Living Team is involved in a new Government backed initiative designed to develop services to help older people live happier, healthy and independent lives.

Wigan has been chosen as one of the first areas in the country to receive funding from the Department of Health to develop the POPPs programme locally. The Active Living Team’s role is to deliver “Stepping Out”, a programme to provide older people with opportunities to improve their health and well being, increase mobility, include more social interaction and to help maintain independent living:

• An Outreach Programme providing talks, exercise taster sessions and six week courses to local groups and sheltered accommodation settings
• A guided health walks programme across the borough
• A wide range of low impact exercise classes and sports opportunities in leisure centres and community venues
• A Senior Peer Mentor volunteer project
• Training opportunities and support for health and care workers who work with frailer, older people to provide physical activity ideas in sheltered housing, day centres, residential and nursing homes
• Targeted Functional Ability and Independent Living initiative
• Other training opportunities including chair based exercise and Volunteer Health Walks training.

► External Link: www.wiganpopp.org

If you would like more information please contact Alison Griffin, Active Living Officer (Outreach) on 01942 488489.




 

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