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UQ Healthy Living is an interprofessional clinic promoting healthy ageing and wellbeing in older adults.
UQ Healthy Living provides assessments and interventions in exercise, diet and lifestyle tailored to meet the particular needs of older people. Drawing upon the latest research from around the world, it is a focal point for researchers across UQ working to address the challenge of an ageing population. Students, under the supervision of leading practitioners in dietetics, exercise and sports science, clinical exercise physiology, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and psychology, offer a range of individual and small group activities designed to promote healthy outcomes.
Get in touch
To find out more, or to book your appointment, please call or email.
Phone: 07 3443 2586 Email: uqhealthyliving@uq.edu.au
Services
Our student practitioners, in consultation with leading researchers in the field of healthy ageing, will design modularised programs to meet the individual physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs of clients.
UQ Healthy Living offers a range of individual and small group activities across:
- dietetics
- exercise and sports science
- clinical exercise physiology
- nursing
- pharmacy
- physiotherapy
- psychology.
Facilities & Programs
UQ Healthy Living clients will have access to this wealth of knowledge and expertise, along with state-of-the-art strength and aerobic equipment.
- age-inclusive strength and aerobic equipment
- education sessions.
Easy Dietetics Recipes
Our nutritional needs change as we approach later life.
By adapting our diet we can support shifts in activity level, lifestyle and circumstance.
UQ Healthy Living’s dietetics service offers advice based on the latest research to help keep you active, healthy and independent.
Download some of our free, easy recipes designed to support the needs of over 50s:
For more strategies to eat your way to a better life, book a one-on-one consult by calling 07 3443 2586 or email uqhealthyliving@uq.edu.au.
Who can attend UQ Healthy Living?
UQ Healthy Living is a community-based clinic promoting healthy ageing and wellbeing in people over the age of 50.
To assist in the training needs of our students, we cater to clients from the following categories:
- Deconditioned – weakness / reduced muscle bulk / reduced endurance
- History of falls
- Reduced balance
- Frailty
- Shortness of breath while resting and with exertion
- Reduced mobility, including difficulty getting out of a chair or bed
- Current or prior cancer, including imminent or current chemotherapy patients
- Cardiopulmonary conditions, such as:
- Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COAD)
- Emphysema
- Prior heart attack
- Heart Failure
Referral pathways will be received from GPs, primary care health professionals, and hospital health services, in addition to self referrals.
A unique learning environment
The University of Queensland has some of the highest calibre researchers, teachers and scholars in Australia interested in clinical and applied ageing research across a wide range of disciplines.
UQ Healthy Living enables the translation of the latest research and emerging advice on cognitive, physical, mental and social wellbeing into practice, addressing contemporary, real-world health concerns.
UQ Healthy Living clients will have access to this wealth of knowledge and expertise, along with state-of-the-art strength and aerobic equipment.
In consultation with leading researchers in the field of healthy ageing, our student practitioners, design modularised programs to meet the individual needs of clients.