Accident Prevention and Staying Healthy
- Home safety
- Managing medication
Advice should Things go Wrong
- Emergency numbers
- First Aid
- Support lines and organisations
Staying in touch, avoiding Scams & Fraud
- Avoiding loneliness
- Staying connected
- Frauds, Scams and Hoaxes
- Hoarding
Blog Articles:
Do hills make you breathless? Try this breathing test from the British Lung Foundation
As people get older, they often start to struggle with stairs and hills and find walking faster becomes more difficult. The British Lung Foundation have created this helpful test and their site has great tips to help increase your stamina and lung capacity and...
How and when to put someone into the recovery position
It is vital that people understand how and when to put someone into the recovery position and re-positioning someone can often save their life. When you are unconscious/unresponsive most of your muscles relax and go floppy. Your tongue is a huge muscle attached to...
Understanding and managing medication – how to avoid prescription mistakes and drug errors
Understanding and managing medication – how to avoid prescription mistakes and drug errors Poisoning from prescription medication is often the route cause of confusion, falls and accidents. A recent study has flagged up that as many as 1 in 5 prescriptions may include...
Stay Safe Support is run by Emma Hammett (First Aid for Life) and Carolyn Cripps (Fit for Safety) in partnership with RoSPA and AGE UK.
