3A Promote and encourage living habits that contribute to a healthy lifestyle

Providing the right guidance and support to achieve good health in a person involves having an awareness of what good health and wellbeing means and understanding how to help a person maintain their health.

In many instances, what you do to support a person in maintaining good health is determined by the organisation’s policies and procedures as well as the person’s plan. A well-developed plan should encourage the person to identify positive things they can do for their wellbeing and actively involve them in achieving these goals.

A healthy lifestyle contributes to the person’s overall wellbeing. A state of wellbeing is when a person feels good about themselves and the way their life is going. Wellbeing means being physically and mentally well; being spiritually, socially and culturally connected; and feeling like life has a purpose. Optimal wellbeing is different for each person, but in general having a sense of control over one’s life and having positive relationships with others is important to wellbeing.

Wellbeing is important because it helps a person to function well in society and to experience positive emotions like happiness or enjoyment or contentment. Wellbeing contributes to good mental health so that a person can work towards their goals.