Community Health Awareness Study for Ageing People

This study aims to make the community members aware about their health, ageing complications, and available services within their locality. It discusses strategies to manage healthy-being and available services including helpline numbers. The objective is to maximize good living condition and achieve quality of living.

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08 Mar 2019
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Aim of the study
The aim of this study is to make the community members aware about their health, ageing
complications, and available services within their locality. Important information regarding
complication such as cancer, dementia, pain, and oral health have been discussed in this study.
Also, relevant information about welfare, healthy living tips, and mental health wellbeing are
discussed.
Strength
The strength include:
- Providing complete overview of health concerns;
- Strategies to manage healthy-being is discussed; and
- Available services are detailed, including the helpline numbers.
The corresponding effect on community members is that they will be aware of the health
complications and will be educated regarding effective strategies to adopt for managing self-
health concerns (Huijg, et al., 2015).
Weakness
- The information present might not be helpful for people with dementia people.
- Additionally, the community members, who requires visual aid and carer support for
reading, cannot take advantage of the given information.
- The information presented gives contact number and suggestion to meet physician,
however it does not provide recommendation for self-management.
- The possible solution suggested for all complication is to visit the local care center or
meet physician. This in turn can increase the health burden on the local facilities. In
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contrary, self-management can reduce number of visit to hospital as well as can enhance
the quality of life significantly.
Communication strategy overview
The information brochure uses clear description of related health concerns which are common
for ageing people (NHS, 2019). Additionally, people of other age group can also take advantage
of these information for raising their knowledge about health, awareness of available facility in
their locality. The information presented are also helpful in making the community member
educate about their own health.
Other communication strategy include visit by social and health workers and directly giving
information to relevant elderly people about their health issues and management opportunities.
Additionally, offering check-list for each complication can enhance the opportunities for routine
management by ‘self’, family members or by carer. The checklist can further be communicated
with healthcare professionals for consultancy purpose.
Overall, the objective is to, render effective lifestyle maintenance, measures to adopt healthy
living, and provision to avail the health services are given in this study. The objective is to
maximize good living condition and achieve quality of living.
References
Huijg, J. M., Gebhardt, W. A., Verheijden, M. W., van der Zouwe, N., de Vries, J. D.,
Middelkoop, B. J., & Crone, M. R. (2015). Factors influencing primary health care
professionals’ physical activity promotion behaviors: a systematic review. International
journal of behavioral medicine, 22(1), 32-50.
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NHS - A Guide to keeping healthy and happy in later life. (2019). Retrieved 08 May, 2019, from
https://www.neneccg.nhs.uk/news/2013/new-online-health-guides-available-for-
northamptonshire/
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