EMBRACE YOUR
WELLBEING
Lendlease Serviced Apartments weekly Nurse Clinic
ensures residents’ health and happiness is a priority.
Once a week, for three hours each time, Registered
Nurse, Danielle Ralston from Alpha Nursing, visits
Classic Residences Brighton, Fiddlers Green, Goodwin
Close, Highvale and Port Phillip Retirement Villages
to participate in the Nurse Clinic – a holistic health
resource for residents. Offering everything from health
checks and disease prevention strategies to answering
health questions and promoting mental wellbeing, it’s
a valuable service with a positive impact. Here, she
shares her top tips for living an optimal life.
1. Get regular health checks:
They’re essential as you
get older as both a preventative and management
strategy. It’s a good idea to have a full blood
examination (including your electrolytes and renal
function), as well as vision, hearing, blood pressure
maintenance and glucose levels.
2. Move more:
Every little bit helps, whether it’s a
short walk around the village or your personal
gym routine.
3. Eat a balanced diet:
Adopt an ‘everything in
moderation’ approach. Enjoy plenty of wholegrain
foods, fruits, vegies and lean meats, and monitor
your treats! Living at a Lendlease Serviced
Apartment means your meals are prepared by
experienced cooks with nutritious and delicious
meals the order of the day, every day.
4. Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t:
Know your physical strengths and limitations. Use
mobility aids if you have to. It’s better to be able to
get up and be confident about mobilising yourself
independently with aids, than feeling nervous about
going for a walk on your own.
5. Look after your mental health:
It can be as simple as
having a discussion about how you’ve been feeling.
Whatever issues you’re dealing with, there’s always a
light at the end of the tunnel. You are never alone.
6. Take advantage of the Nurse Clinic:
It’s run in five
villages at present* once a week for three hours.
It’s a valuable time spent to talk about how you’re
feeling and to ask the nurse anything.
Health &Wellbeing
03
Registered Nurse, Danielle Ralston from
Alpha Nursing.
To find out more about flexible care
options available from Alpha Nursing,
phone 1300 493 608 or visit
*Based on Nurse Clinic trial period until 30 June 2017 at Fiddlers Green, Goodwin Close, Highvale and Port Phillip Village. Trial period not
applicable to Classic Residences Brighton.
