Health and wellbeing

Click the links below to find specific information on how to be active and help yourself to enjoy a healthy, older age:

• Active Ageing – Tips for healthy and active ageing and link to free activity booklet
• Arthritis – Arthritis information, resources and tools to help you live better with arthritis
• Breast Cancer Awareness – 3 simple steps for women and men to check their breasts from NTG Department of Health
• Continence – Get your continence back
• Dementia – Fight dementia
• Falls prevention – Stay on your feet – information to help yourself or your family member prevent falls and stay active and independent
• Fitness – Physical activity guidelines for older adults
• Foot health
  • Foot health and ageing – information from the Australian Podiatry Association on Foot Health
  • Learn about the health of your feet – information for diabetics from NTG Department of Health
• General health – information around staying social, alcohol, smoking and eHealth
• Heart and diabetes – Heart and diabetic health advice – Healthy Living NT
• Mental health
  • Stay mentally strong as you get older
• Nutrition
  • Healthy eating when you’re older – information sourced from Eat for Health
  • Healthier foods – making changes that can improve your health – information from the Heart Foundation
• Pneumonia – Protect against pneumonia
• Shingles – Shingles protection – free immunisation for the over 70s
• Strokes – Signs of stroke and stroke protection