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Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Nichola Kentzer and Martin Penson. It was first published in September 2021.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence).

Images and documents

Introduction

Course image: adamkaz; Getty Images

Session 1

Introduction: Mallika Home Studio; Shutterstock

Section 4: Goldsithney; Shutterstock.com

Section 4: ‘Sleeping Well’; Amy Gallagher and Jo Byfleet, BUPA; https://www.bupa.co.uk/ health-information/ mental-health/ sleeping-well

Section 4.1, Figure 6: Background: FWStudio; Pexelstop left: Alex Green; Pexels; top right: Kindel Media; Pexels; middle left: cottonbro; Pexels; middle right: Andrea Piacquadio; Pexels; bottom: Karolina Grabowska; Pexels

Section 5: Prostock-studio; Shutterstock

Section 6: AlessandroBiascioli; Shutterstock

Session 2

Section 1, Figure 1: (c) Salford Together

Section 2.1, Figure 2: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0.;

Section 4, Figure 4: Sport England

Section 5: Inna Reznik; Shutterstock

Section 6: Monkey Business Images; Shutterstock

Audio & video

Session 1

Video 2: courtesy of Carers Trust

Video 3: courtesy of Maudsley Learning

Video 4: courtesy of Carers UK and British Gas

Session 2

Video 1: British Heart Foundation; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wWGulLAa0O0&t=3s

Video 3: Mind; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=M4p6TddpHSg&t=60s

Video 4: With permission of Dr Sabina Brennan. For more free resources visit www.superbrain.ie

Audio 6: BBC Radio 5live; 14 January 2021

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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