Hoxton Health
Hoxton Health, Jim's Story

Hoxton Health

Hoxton Health was set up in 1987 to

• To enable older people to lead independent lives within the community;
• To improve the mobility of service users;
• To offer services users coping strategies to deal with chronic degenerative diseases;
• To reduce isolation;
• To help older people make informed choices regarding their health care.

When we set up the life expectancy of a man living in Hackney was ten years LESS than their peers in Chelsea. More than 30 years later ‘Marmot 10 years on’ found –

• Since 2011 improvements in life expectancy in the UK have stalled, and for certain groups of the population, gone into reverse.
• And Covid has highlighted health inequalities in our country:
  • with almost two-thirds of those asked to shield in England are aged 60 or older;
  • The prevalence of long-term conditions, in particular respiratory conditions that put people at higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19, varies by socioeconomic deprivation.

Better health and well-being is associated with greater personal resilience so we run low-cost and free specialised and supported exercise classes and provide a range of one-to-one therapies which put older people at their heart.

Starting with acupuncture and homeopathy, the services expanded to meet demand and we now offer acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, reflexology and different types of massage including Aromatherapy and Postural Re-Education, reflexology and we also offer a toe-nail cutting service.