Active Lifestyles
Creating a meaningful balance
We are committed to supporting people to find the activities and routines that keep them moving and active.
Physical activity is good for everybody. It is good for our physical health helping us to lose weight, feel fit and live longer. It can also help with our mental health, and is effective at reducing the symptoms of depression and anxiety. It also has lots of other benefits like:
- Meeting people and making friends
- Learning new skills
- Improve sleep and memory
- Support confidence and self esteem
- Emotional and sensory regulation
Being active isn’t just about organised sports. It includes being outside and appreciating the best of what Cornwall has to offer and can range from walking to the shops instead of driving, to cold water swimming in a river. We all benefit from being outside and thriving in nature.
Person-centred Active Support
People who have a disability are often prevented from developing or expressing their independence. They may need help to do some things for themselves.
The greater the severity of disability, the larger the knowledge or skills gap becomes. With good support, planning and time we can help to fill this gap together. Active Support is a model of support which ensures that people are supported to participate in every aspect of their daily lives and to take the lead in functional and meaningful activities – staff essentially becoming enablers not carers.
Active Support has three components
Interacting to promote participation
People who support the individual, learn how to give them the right level of assistance, so that they can do all the typical daily activities that arise in life.
Activity support plans
These provide a way to organise household tasks, personal self-care, hobbies, social arrangements and other activities which individuals need or want to do each day and to work out the availability of support so that activities can be accomplished successfully.
Keeping track
A way of simply recording the opportunities people have each day that enables the quality of what is being arranged to be monitored and improvements to be made on the basis of evidence.