Community education
 

About the sessions:

We use a peer education model to run sessions that encourage seniors to talk to seniors about how to age in healthy ways.

  • Free of Charge
  • Delivered by fully trained volunteer Community Educators
  • Available across Canberra, some topics available in NSW
  • Have a practical focus including discussion of simple strategies to deal with the issues raised
  • Are designed to be interactive - attendees are cncouraged to share their own ideas and experiences
  • For groups small or large
  • Designed to last for up to an hour

Sample Brochures

Topics Available:

COTA (ACT) and the NPS work in partnership to deliver a topic titled:

Medicines and You

140,000 visits to hospitals each year are medicine related problems and more than half of these are preventable.

The focus of this session is on learning about medicines - the options available, where to go for information, what questions you should be asking your health professional, information about generic medicines and steps we can all take to get the most out of our health.

National Prescribing Service Logo      

COTA (ACT) and beyondblue: the national depression initiative work in partnership to deliver a topic titled:

beyond maturityblues

Over 1000,000 Australians each year experience a depressive illness, 1 in 5 women and 1 in 8 men

The focus of this session is on learing about depression - participants will increase their knowledge about depression, it's signs and symptoms and how they can support people to seek help.  Our aim is to decrease the stigma around depression and demonstrate that it's not a normal part of ageing.

   

Community Education

Community Education encourages and enables seniors in our community to minimise the risks to their health and wellbeing, increase awareness of services and provide practical, empowering information.

Our sessions are delivered using a Peer Eduction model, this is the process where people who share common ground teach and learn from one another.  COTA (ACT) trains seniors who then volunteer their time to talk to seniors in our community about healthy ageing issues.

For further information or to book a session for your club, community organisation, special interest group, church group, service club, neighbourhood centre - in fact any group that meets then contact the Community Education Manager,  on 62823777 or e-mail peereducation@cota-act.org.au.

 

 

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