Well-being Conference

Event Date:

Wednesday 12 March 2008

 

Wednesday 12 March 2008

Start Time:

10.00

End Time:

15.45

Location:

Everglades Hotel- Strabane Road- L'derry

Cost:

free

Event Type:

Event

Well-being is finally being released from its narrow definition of merely a consequence of improved health as suggested by the well-worn phrase "health and well-being".

In fact, recent research indicates that good health is a consequence of an overall sense of well-being, rather than the other way round. Well-being is actually an indication of all being well in one's life circumstances. If we focus on improving those circumstances then well-being, and consequently, health, will improve.

Following an enthralling lecture on well-being in Belfast Castle in December, Dr Derek Cox, Chief Medical Officer for Dumfries & Galloway, returns to NI as a keynote speaker at a Well-being Conference to be held in the Everglades Hotel in Derry on 12 March. He will focus on a new system of measuring well-being of the individual while Andrew Harris from the Scottish Council Foundation will examine well-being from a public policy perspective.

The Conference is being organised by the local network ALLY Foyle (Active Living in Later Years) and is sponsored by Western Investing for Health, Derry City Council, Derry Healthy Cities and U3A Foyle. Attendance is free but is strictly by registration only as places are limited to 150 (83 already taken as on 15 -2 -08).

For further details and to register contact Angelina Cooper at info@allyfoyle.com or phone 028 7126 5098. Further information is available at www.westernifh.org