With Social Prescribing, Hanging Out, Movement and Arts Are Doctor’s Order

For more than 30 years, Frank Frost worked as a long-distance truck driver, ferrying industrial chemicals across the United Kingdom.

“I worked away from home six days a week, working up to 12-15 hours a day,” says Frost, now 76. “My only exercise was looking for a fast food outlet in the evening when I’d parked up.”

He gained weight and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in his 50s. His doctors put him on insulin injections and told him to lose weight and move more.

“When l, like most people, failed, they made me feel weak and worthless,” says Frost.

Then, Frost met a doctor with a completely different approach — one that changed his life.