Health & Wellbeing

Individual health and wellbeing is important in ensuring that we have a good quality of life. Lifestyles, hobbies. work and home life all have an impact on our health and wellbeing.

There are many options available to us to support our choices for health and wellbeing across our lifetime

Health is not just about physical activity, mental health, diet, nutrition and drink; it also includes the wellbeing of individuals taking into account elements such as stress and anxiety, sleep and life management.

Feeling good does not necessarily depend on spending money. Evidence suggests that there are 5 ways to wellbeing and making a positive difference to your life.

Our Health and Wellbeing Service provides advice and information about a variety of health issues and initiatives on improving your own health and wellbeing and also information on local services

If you feel you need help and do not feel that you are eligible for care and support you can contact our Health and Wellbeing team to ask for an Assessment.

Following the outcome of the assessment we will either:-

If your support from Adult Services has ended, you can contact the Health and Wellbeing team who can offer a check and support service. You will be allocated an Advisor, who will meet with you to find out what low level support you might benefit from. This support might be in maintaining your home, getting out and about in your community, attending local activity or support groups, making sure that you are receiving the right benefits, housing options advice, home safety advice, falls, prevention advice and lots more.They will then help you to make the necessary arrangements to make these things happen. Your Advisor will maintain contact with you for as long as you feel the need, to help you to remain independent and active in your own home. If at any point you feel that you no longer need that support just let your Advisor know. More importantly, you can always come back to the Health and Wellbeing Service if ever you feel you need a little more information, advice or support.

Age UK Tameside offer a wide number of services for older people in Tameside.

Action Together supports voluntary, community and faith groups in Tameside. These groups, and the volunteers who keep them running, are changing lives for the better across the local area and is here to help these good causes bring about change and to give them a louder voice.

Volunteering can offer you the chance to learn new skills, use your existing skills and expertise, develop new interests, meet people, become involved in action that effects social change and the opportunity to get involved

Action Together can help your organisation to identify, apply for and secure resources. Help build skills and knowledge of trustees, staff and volunteers and improve the effectiveness, quality and sustainability of your organisation.

There is a large amount of different sport and leisure activities going on around Tameside to enable you to get active. Some of the activities take place in Community buildings, some are out and about in our Countryside.

Information from the National Health Service on Your health, your choices

You may already have a hobby or interest in something and want to join a bigger group, you may also want to try something new.

The Council have many events that you can access ranging from Arts & Crafts to Environment & Nature

You may be finding it difficult to walk and often walking sticks or walking frames can provide the extra support that's needed to get around the house and also get out and about within your neighbourhood and community.

There may be adaptations to your home that you may wish to consider such as grab rails to help steady yourself or a ramp to your front and back door to avoid large steps. A stair lift may also be of assistance for you if you can no longer get upstairs.

If you need more support a wheelchair or mobility scooter may be the answer. You need to consider where you would store them and how you would be able to charge a scooter but advice about the best equipment for your needs and where to get it from is available

There are a wide variety of places to buy equipment, some of which are listed below, many others can be found in your local shopping area.

Please note that we cannot recommend particular companies. Inclusion on this page does not constitute a recommendation.