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Let us help you run an event for Falls Awareness Week 18-22 June 2012. Falls are a serious problem for people in later life but Falls Awareness Week helps people find out more about falls and take part in local classes and services that can help prevent them. Use our free resources and start planning your event.
Here are a selection of recent and important documents. For related Age UK publications please use the search box below to carry out a more comprehensive search.
Social prescribing is a means of enabling primary care services to refer patients with social, emotional or practical needs to a range of local, non-clinical services often provided by the voluntary sector. Find out more and view our recent webinar showcasing a successful model of partnership working between the voluntary sector and GPs. See also:
Social Prescribing Presentations (PDF 1.5MB)
Social Prescribing Q&A session (PDF 58 KB)
Social Prescribing Report (PDF 792 KB)
Other reports:
Right Care, first time - Services supporting safe hospital discharge & preventing hospital admission & readmission (2012) (PDF 884KB)
Breaking Through: Building Better Falls and Fractures Services in England (PDF 387KB)
Cockermouth Centre for the Third Age report on working with GPs and VCS (PDF, 423KB)
Promoting mental health and wellbeing (PDF 1MB)
Prevention in practice (PDF 1MB)
Evidence review: tackling isolation and loneliness (PDF 1MB)
Use our Document Library to find health and wellbeing-related documents
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