Living Well Expo day is tomorrow.. Opening at 4pm by Anna May McHugh 70 exhibitors! Talks and demos ! Coalition Chefs Debut! Packed programme! Operation Transformation’s Stephanie Bowden! See you there! For a full programme of talks, demos and a list of exhibitors..visit https://laois.ie/anna-mai-champions-living-well/

Isaac Care are just one of the technology companies coming to our expo.. To see what they do, click the link below https://youtu.be/xjt10Ic3pA4

🗓️6 Days to go! The Living Well Expo happens next Thursday the 13th April from 4pm to 8pm in Portlaoise College. To get an attendees pack issued to you in advance email tcurran@laoiscoco.ie or eoconnor@laoiscoco.ie. This pack has a list of exhibitors, location info and times of talks and demos. Any questions, call Tom or Emma on 086 0363426 & 086 0665215

Members of the HSE Social Work in Primary Care team are attending our Living Well Expo Social Workers are core team members of HSE Primary Care Multidisciplinary teams. Social Work in Primary Care is a consent led community based service, providing social assessments of the needs of service users, their families and communities. Social Workers in Primary Care aim to enhance the quality of life and wellbeing of the local population as part of community base multidisciplinary teams. Social Workers in Primary Care provide short-term interventions to individuals, families and communities placing the person at the centre of all interventions. A Social Worker in Primary Care can, with your consent, support you by offering emotional, practical and social support. Your Social Worker aims to assist you in finding the best possible outcomes to concerns that may be impacting on your health and quality of life. Your Social Worker can ensure that your voice is heard and understood when it comes to your health and social needs. Social Work in Primary care has an open referral pathway. Any individual, service or professional can refer. Social Workers in Primary Care are based in your local Primary Care Centre and can be contacted there. HSE Ireland

Age & Opportunity is delighted to be offering Changing Gears online this February and March. Designed to boost wellbeing and resilience, it is a four session course funded by the HSE that focuses on managing transitions in mid to later life. Changing Gears offers participants (aged 50+) time to: • Develop skills and techniques to build resilience and confidence in managing life-changes or transitions. • Reframe transitions in their lives as opportunities with positive options, challenging negative stereotypes about ageing. The programme allows participants to reflect on challenges they have experienced in the past and life-lessons they have learned. In this way strategies for building resilience and managing change draw on personal experience to create a more positive and fulfilling future. Sessions cover: Life Transitions (Up to Now); Building Resilience (Here and Now); and Mapping the future (Where to from Here). Via Zoom Dates: Mondays 13, 20, 27 February and 6 March 2023 Times: 11.00 am – 1.00 pm with a short comfort break. To book your place on this programme, please e-mail Fiona at 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲@𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.𝗶𝗲 and provide your postal address so handouts can be posted out to you prior to the course commencement date of 13 February 2023. Please note that this programme has been funded by the HSE and is free of charge. Participation requires attendance at each of the four sessions (please do not book a place if you cannot attend on these dates). Bookings will be made on a first come first served basis.

Click below for a round up from around the country https://laois.ie/age-friendly-newsletter-27th-january/