Community activity as a path to better health
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GPs could prescribe bingo and dancing after English trial’s success
Boxing, bingo and Bollywood dancing are being prescribed on the NHS in a pilot project that GPs claim is reducing their workload by cutting the number of non-medical issues they deal with. “Community prescribing” sees patients sent to exercise classes and sessions on debt and housing advice in church halls and pubs for issues that GPs are not qualified…
Let’s b:Friend!
Mike, 32, left his well paid city job in London and moved home to Doncaster to help end loneliness for the elderly. He worked hard to set up B:Friend – a charity which pairs up elderly people with local volunteers who get them out of the house. Click below to meet 81-year-old Dallas, who is…
Laughing over spilled Jell-O: a radical prescription for loneliness in seniors
Adamson and Duncan are typical roommates except for one small demographic detail: Duncan is 23 and Adamson is 92. They met through Symbiosis, a co-housing project run by the school of graduate studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. The project hooks up students in need of safe, affordable housing and neighbourhood seniors in need of…