In Upper Austria, around 80,000 people are looked after and cared for at home. The majority of family members feel overburdened and struggle with stress-related physical ailments, psychological problems, exhaustion and isolation. Especially during the pandemic, there has been an increase in psychosocial stress.
“We put the caring and caring relatives at the center of the focus year ??Healthy living in Upper Austria??. We want to support them with compact information, health tips and helpful materials,” says health officer LH Deputy Christine Haberlander (ÖVP). Specifically, “healthy communities” have the opportunity to put together a tailor-made prevention package for their own community from a catalog of offers with the focus on “healthy care.staying healthy”.
The offers in this prevention package are aimed specifically at all those who care for someone in their immediate or close environment who takes care of children, the chronically ill, the elderly, people with mental illnesses and people with disabilities.
The package offers compact information and practical impulses for relief and self-care and is intended to appeal to both young and old. Among other things, digital competence is promoted.
The following health pillars support the offer:
- Move: There are also suggestions for an ergonomically healthy everyday life, how nature can serve as a resource and how opportunities for exercise in everyday life can be created.
- Nutrition: It explains how you can save time with a clever menu design in the stressful everyday care routine.
- Psychosocial Health: Topics such as burnout or relaxation in everyday life are dealt with.
- Medical topics: The offer includes compact information on medical or nursing topics – for example to relieve dementia.
Source: Nachrichten
