Know Your Numbers Week
Wellbeing guide from Police Mutual Know your numbers week Know Your Numbers Week (2nd – 8th September 2024) encourages people to get their blood pressure tested. Many people have high blood pressure without knowing it which can cause other health problems. As well as understanding your blood pressure, it’s also important to understand your cholesterol, […]
Caring for a loved one
Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutual Caring for a loved one Caring for someone has many positive and rewarding aspects to it and it can be the most loving thing you can do for someone else. It can however, also be challenging, leaving you feeling exhausted and in some cases can be extremely lonely and isolating. […]
Neurodegenerative Conditions
Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutual Neurogenerative conditions Neurodegenerative diseases occur when nerve cells in the brain or peripheral nervous system lose function over time and ultimately die. Although treatments may help relieve some of the physical or mental symptoms associated with neurodegenerative diseases, there is currently no way to slow disease progression and no known […]
New Career
Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutual New Career Your retirement brings with it a wealth of opportunities and choices. You may decide to pursue a second career or start a new business, whilst others will choose to enjoy their new found leisure time catching up on the fun things in life. It’s your retirement and your […]
Social Care & Benefits
Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutal Social Care & Benefits There are a range of benefits available in later life, including heating benefit, attendance allowance, personal independence payment, winter fuel payment and more. Each year benefits go unclaimed by older people, so make sure you’re getting everything you’re entitled to. Help to pay for care Attendance […]
Debt
Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutual Debt Your financial wellbeing is just as important as your physical and mental wellbeing, so it’s important to find time to effectively manage your money. Money worries are not just a financial problem they can cause relationships to end, people to lose homes and families to break down. People from […]
Wellbeing Guide – Legal Matters – August 2024
Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutual Legal Matters You are never too young or too old to plan for the future. Planning is the key to achieving your wishes. Wills, funerals and powers of attorney are not nice things to think about, but by arranging these things sooner, it should help your family emotionally and financially […]
MenAreTalking – Man Cancer – 21st January 2022
Get Tested – Get Talking – Get Treated. Helping the newly diagnosed (and those supporting them) to become streetwise about this scary ‘man cancer’ thing and the treatments that will get their lives back on track. “I’m sorry to have to tell you Mr Colegrove… it is cancer” I heard these words at the […]
COVID-19 Knowledge Hub & Branch Best Practice
Welcome to our COVID-19 Knowledge Hub and Best Practice area. Here we have brought together all the official advice on what you need to do, how you can manage your health and wellbeing and how NARPO can help during the global health crisis. The COVID-19 global pandemic has turned life as we know it upside […]
Living with dementia – respite services
Wellbeing after the Police can cover some amazing and uplifting topics around health and fitness, but at NARPO we also have to embrace some of the problems facing our members in later life. We are determined to be at the forefront of thinking on key issues and believe that developing a clear understanding of dementia […]