The Time of Your Life Project

Cultural Prescribing?

Drugs & Social Care?

Important to understand the need for a balance between drugs, social care and cultural/social prescribing – not one answer for all!

What is your daydream? Fun and frolics in old age or pain and despair? Perception can alter over time – however possibility of more choice not just chance…

Was predominantly down to chance – genes, social setting or blind luck but now…!

Science, Medical Advances and Health Education have given the people of this country longevity that could only have been dreamed of just a few decades ago…

A pill for every ill…

Blood Pressure Strokes Cancer Survival Rates Loneliness

Plus just when we thought it was ok…

Medication now better manages blood pressure, stroke prevention and survival – plus medication and new treatments have dramatically improved cancer survival rates. But what about loneliness?

"Loneliness as b ig a killer as obesit y and as

dangerous as heavy sm oking," t he Daily

Express repor t s. Researchers pooled t he

result s of previous st udies, est im at ing t hat

loneliness can increase t he r isk of prem at ure

deat h by around 30%.

The headline fo llow s a new analysis of m ore

t han 3.4 m illion par t icipant s, w hich show ed

evidence t hat people w ho feel, or are, socially

iso lat ed or live alone are at about a 30% higher

r isk of ear ly deat h.

Getting older - it all too often still feels like an uphill struggle…

Breathing Problems, Alzheimer’s Dementia, Fibro Myalgia. Hypertension, Depression , Asthma , Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypothyroidism, Stroke or Transient Ischaemic Attacks, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Cancer, Atrial Fibrillation, Mental Health, Heart Failure, Epilepsy

Learning Difficulties including Autism

Les Rogers 5.6.16

The Courtyard, Goole

High Blood Pressure and Stress: Take a walk around Burnby Hall Gardens Attend the first night of The Railway Children at Bridlington Spa Visit at least two local festivals Volunteer with the local Nature Group Doctors comment: have fun! 3x

Cultural Prescribing

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Example of how Cultural Prescribing Helps so many different people – straw pole of attendees on a TOYL trip in 2015

The Time of Your Life Project

Why Cultural prescribing is good - Attendees benefit – wellbeing agenda. Local economy benefits – 30 + places booked on a sea cruise = £££’s for local economy + all those fish and chips and cups of tea!

Important – only good if not prescriptive – one size fits all does not work!

The Greek poet Pindar wrote in the 5th Century BC: “The Best of healers is Good Cheer’’

Anthropologists have

unearthed evidence of

Laughter as a medicine in the

most divers and ancient of

cultures…

In ancient Greece, you often found the Temples of Entertainment next to the Healing Temples.

Example - Taking an Individual fishing kept him out of hospital – was spending 5 months a year on a psychiatric unit – cost implication was huge!

Charity sector perception – of Health = Complex health ‘pathways’ and inefficient. Charity sector vision of self = neat and tidy professional charity offers

Health perception of self = Lots of smiling efficient medical staff Perception of charity and voluntary sector = ‘Enthusiastic Armature's’