Useful local websites Your Circle Your Circle is a website run by Gloucestershire County Council. It is a directory to help you find your way around care and support and connect with people, places and activities in Gloucestershire. It has lots of information about the topics covered in this guide as well as listings of local activities, groups and services in Gloucestershire to help you, or someone you care for, be safe, happy and healthy for as long as possible. It also includes information about how the social care system works and how to
use it if you need it. You can find a list of all the information pages via the Information A-Z, located in the main menu bar. Web: www.yourcircle.org.uk ASAP – Get health advice ASAP If you need health advice, the ASAP website and app allow you to search by service or condition, providing a step-by-step guide through symptoms, self-care and signposting to the appropriate NHS service/s. You can also find opening hours and service location information. Download the app in your app store (for iPhone and Android). Web: www.asapglos.nhs.uk
Part One: Help to be healthy, active and independent This part of the guide is about helping you find out what is available in Gloucestershire and what you can do to help yourself, or the person that you care for, to be healthy, active and independent for as long as possible. It will help you find out where to go to
get a bit of extra help and what is available locally. There is information on what to do if you need more help, what care and support is and how it works in part two of the guide.
Being healthy Good health is about your mind as well as your body. Feeling physically fit and feeling good about yourself can help you to achieve more of the things that you want to do in life. There are lots of things you can do to be as healthy as possible and to remain as independent as you can. This chapter will help you find useful information to help you with your physical, mental and sexual health. Health advice If you need medical help and advice but it is not an
emergency, you can ring NHS 111. This is the NHS non-emergency telephone number and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Calls are free from landlines and mobiles. The service is staffed by a team of fully trained advisers with clinical support, who will ask questions to assess your symptoms. It will then give you the healthcare advice you need or direct you straight away to the local service that is best placed to help you.
Gloucestershire Healthy Lifestyle Service The lifestyle choices we make for ourselves and for our family can dramatically impact our health in later life. There are lots of great reasons to make lifestyle changes; we all have things that we want to
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be healthy and well for, and that are important to us, whether that’s in the short- or long-term. Making positive changes to our diet, activity levels,
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