A new OLLE course is available to help colleagues learn more about Living Well Falkirk and its capabilities.

What is Living Well Falkirk?
Living Well is Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership’s self-assessment and advice service, providing local people with easy access to information and support. With a focus on prevention, the service is designed to provide help at an earlier stage than compared to when formal health or social care services are needed.

The Living Well Falkirk website (https://livingwellfalkirk.lifecurve.uk/) was built on the ADL Smartcare platform and launched in 2018 with a focus on healthy ageing. By mapping a user’s position on a LifeCurveTM and using self-assessment, the platform can provide advice and information as well as the ability to order some items of equipment to help individuals live as independently as possible.

Prior to the impact of the pandemic, the Living Well website was also supported by the in-person Living Well Centre model, offering people direct access to advice with the help of trained staff. The Partnership is now making plans to return to this in-person model.

OLLE Module
A new online course has been developed on Falkirk’s OLLE platform. By the end of the course, learners should be able to:
• Understand the aims and benefits of Living Well Falkirk
• Feel confident about trying out the website and about explaining it to people in Falkirk who use our services
• Understand what is meant by healthy ageing
• Understand what the LifeCurveTM can tell us and the people who use our services about our ageing journeys.

The course is available via the OLLE pages (in the Council Information and Policies section) via https://app.tessello.co.uk/Falkirk-Olle/login/