NAPA – National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People

The National Activity Providers Association is the UK’s leading activity and engagement charity. NAPA supports care services to prioritise wellbeing and promote activity, arts, and engagement. A United Kingdom where activity and engagement is an integral part of care provision, where people live content, creative and connected lives. The vision is to advance the role…

Charities and Non Governmental Organisations

Activity Provision: benchmarking good practice in care homes

This publication has been produced by the College of Occupational Therapists (COT) and NAPA, the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People working in partnership. Evidence shows that providing a range of activities within care homes can improve residents’ quality of life. However, the provision of meaningful activity appropriate to an individuals’ interests…

Books on leading activity and exercise in Nursing Homes

Later Life Training collaborating on NIHR research project – ProAct65+

Dawn Skelton, Susie Dinan-Young and Bob Laventure are co-investigators on a large National Institute of Health Research Health Technology Assessment research grant. This multi-centre RCT trial in primary care (London, Nottingham and Derby) compares a community group exercise programme (FaME) with home based exercise (OEP) and with usual care for people aged 65 and over.…

News, Research and Research Organisations

Dawn Skelton working on MRC research project ENVISAGE

Dawn Skelton is a co-investigator on a large Medical Research Council research grant entitled “ENVISAGE-Promoting Physical independence by involving users in rehabilitation through dynamic visualisations of movement data”. The large project team include Prof Phil Rowe at the University of Strathclyde, Prof Alaistair MacDonald at the Glasgow School of Art and other co-investigators at Glasgow…

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