Staying Active

Find local and national contacts to help you stay active and improve your strength and balance. This includes information about exercise classes, online resources, and support for getting started.

Please find below useful links, relevant resources and contact information. All links open in a new window and may include links to websites, videos, and PDF files for downloading and printing.

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Staying Active and Healthy

Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICB
Preventing falls – Stay steady, stay independent

Midlands Partnership University Trust - Falls Prevention
Local Falls Teams and falls prevention services contact information for South Staffordshire, North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and East Staffordshire.

Active Communities Stoke
Specialist-led sessions for physical and mental wellbeing, community-based activities in local venues and green spaces and supportive programmes for older adults, carers, and those with long-term conditions.

Everyone Health - Staffordshire
Everyone Health offers simple, long‑term support to help you stay healthy. Services are available both virtually (by phone) and face‑to‑face. 

Move More Staffordshire Moorlands
To get everyone across Staffordshire Moorlands to move more every day.

Age UK Stafford & District
Offers lots of services for older people and their carers.

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Support with Specific Conditions

MPFT Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent - CBT
If your dizziness is linked to anxiety, panic, or other mental health issues, this service can provide talking therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

MPFT Continence Service East Staffordshire
Continence Services and support in East Staffordshire.

Midlands Partnership University Trust - Podiatry
The Podiatry service is responsible for assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases affecting the feet and lower limbs in children and adults across Staffordshire. 

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) - Adult Sleep Service
Adult sleep service for support with sleep disordered breathing and other sleep problems.

DougieMac - Stoke on Trent Residents - Dementia Services
Dementia Services offers holistic support for people with dementia across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire.

Staffordshire Connects- Dementia Support
Various activities and support for people with Dementia and their Carers.

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Community Directory

Stoke on Trent Community Directory
Community directory is an online tool to help you find out about activities, clubs, support, health services, and what’s on in your local area.          

Staffordshire Connects
Search and find help and support in your community.

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Sensory Support

Staffordshire County Council - Sensory Loss Service
Advice, support, and care for adults struggling with hearing or vision loss.

Staffordshire County Council - Sensory Loss Information (PDF)
Download the sensory service information PDF.

Sensory Team - Staffordshire
The Sensory Team offers specialist information, advice, guidance and support to people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deafened or Deafblind, and to people with a visual impairment.

Staffordshire Sight Loss
Services from Staffordshire Sight Loss to empower blind and partially sighted people in North Staffordshire to lead independent and fulfilling lives.   

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Staying Active and Healthy Living

Physical Activity Guidelines for Older Adults - NHS
Getting active with Better Health - NHS
Being active as you get older - Age UK
Live Well - NHS
NHS Better Health
Act Now, Age Better - Age UK
Find a local Age UK exercise class 

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Other Useful Links

Royal Osteoporosis Society (Bone Health)
Move it or Lose it
We are Undefeatable
Stronger at Home

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More on this website

Visit our Information and Advice section
Visit our Staying Active section
Visit our Home Safety section
Visit our Help and Contacts section 
Start your online Self-Assessment

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