Health Promotion Services
Enabling control over ones health & wellbeing in our Community
Age Concern Horowhenua deliver a wide range of health promoting programmes, events, and workshops to meet the needs and interests of older people, koroua and kuia in our community.
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These programmes aim to support older people to remain independent and to make changes that will benefit their health and wellbeing. We want to see all older people live dignified, flourishing and purposeful lives, to be well and to be connected.
What Does Health & Wellbeing Mean?
"A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Wellbeing goes beyond a focus on physical health and the presence or absence of impairment, disease or illness.
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Wellbeing is about how a person is in life when considering their wider engagement with spiritual, mental, physical and whānau health, the mind, body, environment, and other living beings.
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It is the relationship and balance between the many factors which impact a person’s happiness, fulfilment, growth, positive relationships and self-appreciation.
What is Health Promotion?
Health promotion is about enabling people to have control over and to improve their health and wellbeing.
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Health promotion targets the factors that influence poor nutrition, causes of stress, the uptake of risky behaviour or why a person may have a lack of good health or wellbeing.
Health promotion is about achieving equity, social justice, affordable, warm and secure housing, education, food; a livable income, a healthy environment and sustainable resources.
About Our Health Promotion Activities
Our health promotion activities include falls prevention education, strength and balance classes, driver education, Presentations on EPOA and Wills, physical activity groups, and nutrition courses and workshops designed specially for older people.
We work with other local organisations to bring together the best information, expertise and feedback, so we can provide the best programs to our Horowhenua Region.
Collectively, we enable older people to participate and stay healthy and connected in their community.
Health Promotion Activities Designed Just For You!
Age Concern Horowhenua delivers a variety of Health Promotion activities that provides useful information on topics to help older people to age well and stay independent, healthy and active.
A list of the activities we offer are below.
