These guides can help you to stay well. They are available in an easy read format.
You can print out some of the guides and work through them.
The guides were made by our learning disability care hub.
Any contact details on the guides may be different for you, depending where you live.
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Anger
These guides will teach you about anger and how to cope:
Anxiety
These guides will teach you about anxiety and how to cope:
Bereavement
This guide is about coping with death and losing someone special:
Cancer screening
These guides are about checking your body for cancer.
- Cancer screenings
- Bowel screening
- Breast screening guide for females
- Breast screening guide for males
- Cervical screening
- Prostate screening
Communication
This guide is about sharing information with other people.
Constipation
Dementia
This guide is about an illness called dementia. Dementia affects the brain.
Dysphagia
This guide is about having trouble with swallowing. This is called dysphagia.
Diabetes
This guide is about a health condition called diabetes:
End of life
This guide is about care at the end of your life:
Epilepsy
This guide is about a brain condition called epilepsy:
Keeping safe
This guide is about keeping safe:
Low mood
Menopause
This guide is about the menopause. This usually happens to women who are over 40 years old.
Mental health
This guide is about looking after your mental health:
Nutrition and hydration
This guide is about healthy eating. It also talks about drinking enough water.
Online coping skills course
This course can help you learn some skills to cope with big feelings, like anxiety, sadness or anger.
It will last for 12 weeks.
Personal care and hygiene
This is about looking after your body and keeping clean:
Relationships and sex
This guide is about relationships and sex:
Self harm
This guide is about what to do when you want to hurt yourself:
Self-soothe using your senses
This guide will help you to make a self-soothe box.
Having a self-soothe box can help when we feel sad, angry, worried, or stressed:
Sleep
These guides are for people who have problems getting to sleep or staying asleep:
Visiting the doctor and annual health checks
This guide is about annual health checks and visiting the doctor: