Resources Hub

Managing your health condition

• How To Make The Most Of A Visit To Your Doctor (PDF)

• Driving with a Medical Condition (PDF)

• Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PDF)

• Oxygen Therapy (PDF)

• Work and Financial Support (PDF)

• Holiday Information (PDF)

• Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke (PDF)

• Travel & motor insurance

• Life & Income Insurance

• Finding Information Online

• Video Calls

Living well

• Alcohol (PDF)

• Breathlessness (PDF)

• Cholesterol (PDF)

• Healthy Eating (PDF)

• Healthy Weight (PDF)

• Mental Wellbeing (PDF)

• Physical Activity (PDF)

• Salt (PDF)

• Stopping Smoking (PDF)

• Tiredness and Fatigue (PDF)

• Type 2 Diabetes (PDF)

Long Covid resources

• Long Covid Essential Guide

• Long Covid Fatigue Essential Guide

• Life with Long Covid Essential Guide

• Exercising Safely with Long Covid

• Managing Breathlessness with Long Covid

Chest resources

• Living With Bronchiectasis (PDF)

• Living With COPD (PDF)

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Essential Guide (PDF)

• COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (PDF)

Heart resources

• Atrial Fibrillation (PDF)

• Heart Attack: A Guide to your Recovery (PDF)

• Living With Angina (PDF)

• Living With Heart Failure (PDF)

• Living With High Blood Pressure (PDF)

• Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy (Broken Heart Syndrome) (PDF)

• Understanding the Need for Changes After a Heart Attack (PDF)

• Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke (PDF)

Stroke resources

• Stroke (PDF)

• Stroke: A Guide to Recovery at Home (PDF)

• Stroke: A Guide to Recovery in Hospital (PDF)

• Stroke: A Carer’s Guide (PDF)

• TIA: Transient Ischaemic Attack (PDF)

• Understanding Haemorrhagic Stroke (PDF)

• Coming To Terms with A Stroke (PDF)

• Relationships and Sex After Stroke (PDF)

• Helping with communication after stroke (PDF)

• Bladder and Bowel Management After A Stroke (PDF)

• Positioning For People Affected By Stroke (PDF)

• Swallowing Problems After Stroke (PDF)

• Understanding Central Post Stroke Pain (CPSP) (PDF)

• Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke (PDF)

Resources for people with aphasia

• Aphasia Factsheet

• Aphasia Booklet

• Your Stroke Journey – Recovering in Hospital (PDF)

• Your Stroke Journey – Recovering at Home (PDF)

• Aphasia ID Card: credit card size that can be shown by people who have communication difficulties (printed resource only)

• Conversation Support Book: an A5 ring-bound book with laminated pages that opens flat. It contains 44 pages of images on a variety of topics to help support a conversation with someone who has difficulty communicating due to stroke (printed resource only)

Use our online order form to order a printed copy of any of the resources listed on this page – it’s free of charge in Scotland!

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Children’s stroke resources

• When my Mum / Dad / Grandad / Gran was ill: a ringbound book with fold out pages and activities for younger children (printed resource only)
• When my Mum / Dad was ill: A4 comic-style for children of reading age (printed resource only)
• Jo’s story: A4 magazine article style for older children (printed resource only)

Use our online order form to order a printed copy of any of the resources listed on this page – it’s free of charge in Scotland!

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Resources for health professionals

• Heart Failure Traffic Lights (PDF)

• Traffic Lights for COPD (PDF)