The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued public health guidance to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care. The guidance focuses on the role of occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions.
The guidance is intended for NHS primary care and other professionals who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, promoting older people's mental wellbeing. This includes those working in local authorities and the wider public, private, voluntary and community sectors.
It will also be relevant for carers and family members who support older people and may be of interest to older people themselves.
The guidance complements and supports, but does not replace, NICE guidance on:supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care; managing depression in primary and secondary care; assessing and preventing falls in older people; obesity; commonly used methods to increase physical activity; physical activity and the environment; behaviour change and community engagement.
http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/PH16/NiceGuidance/pdf/English
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