(PREP Education (online service)
This community-based programme has now been adapted for online use because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but retains its core service offering of providing additional support for stroke survivors after rehab. Aimed at helping you to rebuild your life and gain confidence following a stroke, PREP does this through a combination of education and physio-developed exercises.
Our newly adapted six-week PREP programme is available across all of Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Trusts and covers the following topics:
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people participated in PREP in 2018/19
- What is a stroke?
- The benefits of exercise
- Emotions after stroke
- Food for life
- Lifestyle choices
- Fatigue and falls
- Signposting
PREP made a huge difference to me. It shortened the time I took to recover. At first I found the exercises very hard but now I can do them easily. After my two cycles of PREP I was walking without a stick.