Social prescribing: why purpose is good for your health - BBC Future

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In a bid to improve health and wellbeing, social prescriptions can cover everything from volunteering and art classes to support with household bills. But do they really work?

By Julia Hotz 23rd July 2024 In a bid to improve health and wellbeing, social prescriptions can cover everything from volunteering and art classes to support with household bills. But do they really work? A Akeela Shaikh is a natural carer. After becoming a mother at 19, she realised she loved caring for people and decided to pursue it professionally – first at a home care agency, then in a residential care home. "I just knew, that's me: caring," she says. But the care jobs she loved so much started to tax her physically. They came with literal heavy lifting: moving patients, pushing beds, bei

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