Seminar for professionals - Gardening for Hearts & Minds
15th April 2010
10.00am to 4.00pm
Thrive Trunkwell Garden Project, Beech Hill, near Reading, RG7 2AT.
Using gardening as a self management rehabilitation tool for those affected by stroke and heart disease.
Aimed at professionals and practitioners within the healthcare sector, this seminar will give a real insight into how gardening can help and support the rehabilitation and recovery of people who are affected by stroke and heart disease.
To book a place at this seminar, contact Gill Bailey, Just 30! Project Manager by calling her on 0118 988 5688, email gill.bailey@thrive.org.uk
Thrive’s Just 30! project 'gardening for hearts & minds’, funded by the Department of Health, encourages people to self-manage their rehabilitation to improve their health and make changes to their lives through gardening after a stroke or if they have heart disease. The seminar aims to disseminate the findings and conclusions from this project.
Key speakers will include:
Leonard Levy, Patient Project Lead, Vascular Programme, Department of Health, will talk about The Just 30! project, how it came about, the need for and the impact of projects like this. He will also talk about what the government is doing on cardiac rehabilitation.
Professor Susan Edwards, Professor of Clinical Linguistics at Reading University, will be talking about Aphasia, how the 'gardening for hearts & minds guide’ on-line version, has been adapted for people living with Aphasia.
Nicola Carruthers, Chief Executive, Thrive, will give an introduction to Thrive and the work Thrive does for those affected by stroke and heart disease.
Lunch will be provided and there will be a tour of Thrive’s beautiful 3 acre walled garden.
Professor Roger Boyle, National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke, Department of Health says:
"The National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease and the National Stroke Strategy both set out the importance of rehabilitation for people who have heart disease or who have survived a stroke. I am pleased to see the interest that Thrive has generated in encouraging people affected by heart disease or stroke to undertake 30 minutes of gardening every day to help their recovery and improve their health. This seminar should consolidate Thrive’s achievements during the period of the project and I hope that the Just 30! initiative will continue to grow."
Why not come along and make the most of this great opportunity to find out more about how gardening can help the recovery and rehabilitation of those affected by stroke and heart disease and the opportunity to network with others working in this field.