Tanya Baddeley

Living well is vital to your health and wellbeing

If you are living with a life-limiting illness, caring for someone, or navigating grief or bereavement, your wellbeing remains a vital part of living well.

Our next Living Well Hub will take place on Wednesday, 4th November, from 10am to 12.30pm, in the Coates Centre at Oakhaven, Lower Pennington Lane, Lymington SO41 8ZZ.

This bi-monthly drop-in session, organised by the Oakhaven Wellbeing team, gathers together important organisations to enable you to find relevant signposting and advice that you might require in order to live well.

The Living Well Hub is here for everyone in our New Forest, Totton and Waterside communities - you don't need to be a patient or family already known to Oakhaven. It will be an opportunity to ask any questions that you might have, or to simply come along and find out what sort of support might be available to you in the community.

At the Living Well Hub, you will find:

• New Forest Disability Information Service, able to provide advice on benefits and forms, support at home, carer support and equipment for people affected by disabilities.
• HOPe (Helping Older People New Forest), able to provide advice on attendance allowance, Blue Badge permits, managing paperwork, pension credit and allowances, taxation, benefit claims, disability rights, rent and utility bill problems.
• CAP (Christians Against Poverty), offering free debt and personal support.
• Princess Royal Trust for Carers, offering free help, advice and support (including in an emergency).
• Estate Planning: a variety of professionals able to provide advice on Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, long term care and business succession.
• Oakhaven Care: a member of our social enterprise home care provider will be in attendance and able to provide advice and guidance on adult social care.

In addition, various members of our Hospice Team will be on hand to answer any queries that you might have. This might include members of our Wellbeing team, Community Nursing team, Therapy team, Oakhaven Neighbours team, Patient and Family Support team, for example.

Oakhaven has a holistic approach to care and planning

At Oakhaven, our ethos is centred on placing individuals at the heart of their own care and planning. We adopt a 'what matters to me' approach, encouraging open, beneficial conversations that empower individuals to design living well ideas based on their unique values, needs and aspirations. When plans are shaped by individuals themselves, they are more meaningful, achievable and sustainable.

We support this through a range of opportunities, including one-to-one conversations, workshops, seminars, and tailored programmes. These are designed to promote tools, resources and pathways that help build a strong, self-supportive framework. We aim to enhance each person’s ability to

• self-manage
• establish goal-setting
• foster motivation
• and strengthen commitment to their own wellbeing.

We recognise that wellbeing is deeply personal and is unique to current circumstances. It encompasses physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, cultural, environmental and economic aspects, not always at once, but each contributing to a person’s overall experience.

A holistic approach to wellbeing fosters sustainable progress, not just for individuals, but also for families and communities.

Find out more about the groups, workshops and programmes available every month with Oakhaven Wellbeing at the Coates Centre by clicking here.

The first step is yours, and every step after that can be taken together…

For more information about our Living Well Hub, please contact Lee Rand, our Wellbeing Coordinator, at wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk or call 01590 670346.