Let’s Age Well Together: Free Health Talks & Drop-In Sessions

At Home Instead Milton Keynes we believe in the importance of community health to ensure compassion, dignity and putting care back into healthcare. This means valuing any opportunity where we can encourage health empowerment, education and awareness, improving disease management, shared expertise and overall bettering health outcomes to enhance independent, healthy ageing and happy lives, creating a safer, healthier and community for everyone now and in future.

This is why we offer a variety of community initiatives such as Health talks, Coffee Mornings, Social and seasonal events, Love to Move Movement Programme, Key to care community health drop in sessions with our healthcare experts in GP Practices and many more.

With Milton Keynes being the second largest population increase in South East region by 15.3 higher than the increase for the South East (7.5%) and increase of 43.6% in people aged 65 years and over since 202, we are seeing an increasingly ageing society in Milton Keynes. With the average life expectancy of 81years in Milton Keynes and 50.5% of people living in Milton Keynes live with at least one long term condition, such as 10,000 people living with diabetes in Milton Keynes, Dementia diagnosis doubling from 2,827 to 4,738 by 2040 and lung cancer, COPD and stroke having a large impact on our Milton Keynes residents. This means people are living longer but unfortunately in ill health, we believe we need to do more to help our local communities. These community initiatives allow a safe space for local residents to prevent social isolation, promote awareness and knowledge, gain health support and seek expert advice. On a wider perspective, promote prevention and early intervention, disease management and help you to look after yourselves and loved ones you care for better!

As we have found our Health talks very popular we now provide free talks in the community for organisations, charities, community groups and commercial businesses across Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and surrounding areas on topics such as Healthy Ageing, Dementia, Diabetes, End of Life Care, CPR Training and many more.
Our healthy ageing talks highlights the rapid growth in the elderly population and key tools that we can all implement to ensure we are ageing well. This includes key topics of hydration, oral care, sleep, physical activity, feet care, making the most of our local services etc. With this, we offer other health talks specialising in specific conditions i.e. Dementia, Parkinson’s and Diabetes which offer an overview of the condition, different types, symptoms, practical tools, Q&A and support for both individuals and their loves ones and any further care guidance. The sessions have been well-received by both family members and professionals who are looking for additional support or deepen their understanding of particular conditions.

The collaboration of our Community Engagement, Business Development, Training and Care team ensure we are staying up to date on the key warning signs, best practice, healthcare trends and essential safeguarding to make sure these community engagement initiatives are relevant, supportive and beneficial to clients, patients, care professionals, unpaid carers, families and anyone who needs more guidance.
Home Instead Milton Keynes “Key to Care” drop in sessions are created and delivered in local community centres and GP Practices with the purpose to offer as much support as possible from the early stages of diagnosis till palliative care. These drop in sessions allow the local community and healthcare professions to ask questions, get specialist advice with dementia and other conditions alongside necessary information, resources and support. If you prefer a more relaxed setting to seek advice, share stories, coffee and conversation how about coming to one of our community coffee mornings which a welcoming environment held Every 2nd Monday at Macintyre Coffee Shop, Great Holm, Milton Keynes.

Our Digital Skills initiative offer tech support sessions particularly to the older generation to help us stay safe online. With nearly three in five (61%) older people being target of a financial fraud, this has meant that 1.9 million older people in the UK have been scammed with an reported average loss of £3798.70 per scam totalling to £7.4 billion in UK. Due to this, this initiative highlight the increasingly sophisticated fraud attempts by scam artists but also provides practical support on enhancing digital skills, staying safe online, creating essential online accounts, emails, grocery shopping online, connecting with friends etc. These classes repeat Every 2nd Wednesday of the Month at Newport Pagnell Library from 10:30 AM – 12, with upcoming expansion of this project across Milton Keynes, Buckingham surrounding areas.

If you, charity or organisation would are interested in any one of our community health and outreach engagement initiatives, reach out to our Business Development and Community Engagement team to book a free drop in session, Movement programme, health talk and tech support in either a community setting, charity event, business meeting or staff training. We cannot wait to hear from you! We will deliver these initiatives, collaboration projects and talks in a preferred location of your choice from Bletchley, Onley, Newport Pagnell to Buckingham and ensure that these activities accommodate your needs and provide the most up-to-date information, relevant training, certificates and tailor any training and talks to suit your audience, style and business or community needs.

For any enquires please [email protected] or call 01908 774 333.

Office Address:

Milton Keynes – Global House, Vincent Ave, Crownhill, Milton Keynes MK8 0AB

Buckingham shop – Meadow Row, Buckingham, MK18 1PU