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HEALTHY VILLAGES: A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Figure 2. The Brockenhurst Healthy Village Project: A Catalyst for
Health and Social Care AlliancesYoung
Video
Explor
BusTic
H.V.EvYoga
StrokePeople's Dial-a-Ride
Education Voluntary Groups
BroCkenhurst
er Local Activities Charities Bathers
:ket
rent PHCT Education
Village Hall
Churches
BHVP
Social Services Councils of
Community Services
Hotel Health Clubs Health Promotion
New Forest Health Commission
District Council NHS Trusts
Parish Council Health and Care
Club Forum
Health Club for
Older PeopleThe local education college supported
computer training and hopes to introduce
"cyber cafes" for the young and older
persons in the community. Art classes, flower
arranging groups, and bridge playing sup-
ported the well-being and healthy living
programs for people of all age groups in the
community including those with disabilities
and special needs.
The coordinator was able to support
health promotion and environmental topics
and identify any service pitfalls in the
community. Fewer prescriptions were given to
patients in the referred group with corre-sponding reduced referrals to hospitals and
social services, but the number of patients in
the study were too small for a statistical
study. A consultant geriatrician wrote that the
"healthy living program had done more for a
particular patient than any interventions
offered by the hospital services." This
patient was a hypertensive, obese, diabetic,
who, through the healthy living program
organized at the local hotel, was able to
reduce weight, reduce his blood pressure
prescriptions and his blood pressure, and was
able to control his diabetes on diet alone.66
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