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OT in Twenty
Busting the myths of ‘Dynamic Seating’.
In this 20 minute lunchtime session, we were joined by Occupational Therapist and seating expert, Clare Canale of Red Robin Therapy.
It’s Carers Week
Carers UK and the six other charities involved in Carers Week are calling on the Government to develop a Recovery and Respite plan for unpaid carers across a range of areas – including breaks, respite and care services, infection control, identification of carers, financial help, and support to juggle work and care.
We’re going to the European Seating Symposium
The European Seating Symposium is taking place 14-17 June 2022 at Croke Park Stadium, Dublin and we can’t wait!
It is the leading event in the field of Seating & Assistive Technology and we’ll be joined by professionals, other manufacturers and suppliers.
National Epilepsy Week
National Epilepsy Week runs from 23-29 May 2022 and this year epilepsy charities in the UK are focusing on both the important role that families, friends, colleagues and healthcare professionals play in supporting people with epilepsy, and also on how the condition can impact them.
Introducing ‘in Twenty’
‘in Twenty’ is Aergo Health’s NEW webinar series!
In just twenty minutes on the first Tuesday of every month, we’ll hold a quick fire session on topics that interest us and hopefully you too :) including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Disability, Accessibility…to name just a few.
Daniel & the Aergo PS
Daniel is on board for the second phase of our Aergo PS case studies - joining Hadley in trialling the PS and feeding back his experiences through a series of online questionnaires and visits from our team.
National Children’s Day
On 15 May and the week running up to it, National Children’s Day celebrates the rights and freedoms of childhood, while promoting all the wonderful work organisations and individuals do to help children grow up happy and healthy
Design Ventura
Our founder and CEO Sheana Yu was invited to speak at the Design Ventura in the Design Museum.
Design Ventura is a free, design and enterprise challenge for students in years 9, 10 and 11, supported by industry professionals.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
This year’s theme is loneliness.
One in four adults feel lonely some or all of the time while 45% of children said they felt lonely ‘often or ‘some of the time’.
Some people are more at risk of loneliness than others.
Try the Aergo PS
Aergo Health is offering an exciting opportunity for children and young people, living in the UK and Ireland, to try out the Aergo PS for a 12-week trial period.
Our participants will be asked to share their experience of using the Aergo PS via a series of online questionnaires during the 12-week period.
Hadley & the Aergo PS
Recently we’ve began our second phase of Aergo PS case studies, and one of our PS Pioneers is the lovely Hadley Brisdion.
He’s an 11 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy who loves sports and gaming.
Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
Every year, the whole month of March is dedicated to raising awareness of Cerebral Palsy.
Aergo Health is joining in to highlight some of the important information that we have learnt over the years working with children with Cerebral Palsy
Young Carers Action Day
Young Carers Action Day is an annual event led by Carers Trust.
It raises awareness and calls for action to increase support for young people with caring responsibilities.
#YoungCarersActionDay 2022 is about Taking Action on Isolation.
Healthcare Science Week
Healthcare Science Week provides an opportunity for the NHS to tell their local community and other health professionals first-hand about how science and technology is vital in modern patient care and changes lives for the better.
IWD:‘Be anything you want to be…’
Lucy joined us in celebrating International Women’s Day as one of the strong, resilient and talented women who have inspired us over the years.
Lucy is a designer, author, fundraiser and advocate - at the heart of everything she does is her daughter Carmela who has a life-limiting, muscle-wasting disease - LMNA-CMD.
Kirstie Goodwin: Always striving to achieve more.
Kirstie Goodwin is Co-Founder of the Cerebral Palsy Adult Advice UK Facebook group.
As well as advocating for adults with Cerebral Palsy, she is a single, working parent to two young girls. For Kirstie International Women’s Day is an opportunity to remind her daughters that with hard work they can do anything they want to do.
Fight for what you believe in.
A message for International Women’s Day
Karen Watson is Co-Founder of the Cerebral Palsy Adult Advice UK Facebook group.
Together with her friend Kirstie Goodwin, they spotted a gap in the provision of advice and support for adults with cerebral palsy so they set up this group exclusively for adults and their families.
Sarah Brisdion: Mother, Campaigner, Friend
First up is Sarah Brisdion.
Sarah is mum to twins Hadley and Erica. She is also a writer, designer and self-confessed lover of dark chocolate, cheese and red wine.
International Women’s Day
International Women's Day is celebrated tomorrow, March 8 and it aims to focus global attention on creating a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination.
A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Aergo Health caught up with some of the strong, resilient and talented women that we have worked with recently and in the past.
International Wheelchair Day
March 1st is International Wheelchair Day!
It was launched 13 years ago and is celebrated across the world, providing wheelchair users with an opportunity to celebrate how important their wheelchairs are to them.