ActiveLife: Nature Therapy
Who can be referred?
Inclusion criteria
- Low level anxiety and depression
- A degree of loneliness and social isolation
- Early stage dementia
- Ambulatory without aid or rest for some 200 meters; disability severe enough to impair full daily activities (e.g. to work a full day without special provisions)
- Must live in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Exclusion criteria
- Symptomatic hypotension -significant drop in BP during exercise / dizziness / light headedness
- Pain, dizziness or excessive breathlessness experienced during exertion
- Any unstable or uncontrolled condition
- Febrile illness (flu/fever)
- Individuals experiencing acute uncontrolled psychiatric conditions
- Advanced dementia