Specialist exercise training for people working with older populations
Providing specialist, evidence based, effective exercise training for health and exercise professionals working with older people and frailer older people.
by Dawn Skelton. This illustrated A4 work book contains descriptions of exercises to help maintain strength and balance. The book has a hard cover, comes with a stand, and is spiral bound at the top enabling each page to be flipped over during a workout. Each exercise is also clearly illustrated and described. It used…
The Active for Later Life resource, developed by the BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and Health (in partnership with the British Heart Foundation), aimed to help all those involved in developing physical activity programmes for older people of all ages and abilities. Originally published in 2003 and updated in 2010, the Active for Later…
AGILE is a Professional Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy that specializes in rehabilitation for older people and specific expertise in Osteoporosis, Falls, Parkinson’s disease and exercise. They produce a journal “Agility” and organise conferences and seminars throughout the year.
Published in 2007, the results of a randomised controlled trial comparing with relaxation on physical function and quality of life in people who had been discharged from rehabilitation. The paper describes the background need for an effective group programme for those leaving the rehabilitation setting. The programme, delivered over 12 weeks, 3 times a week,…
This abstract, presented at the 2008 7th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity, discusses the development, content and evaluation of the Someone Like Me programme.
Published in 1999, this article describes the rationale for the content (frequency, intensity, type and time; components of fitness) of the FaME programme of exercises that are delivered on the PSI Course. This paper gives information on the general delivery but does not give the specific exercises. To read the summary of the paper, published…
Published in 2005, the results of a randomised controlled trial comparing FaME (Falls Management Exercise), delivered by PSI’s, with no exercise (control group) on falls in a group of women with a history of 3 or more falls. The paper describes the background need for an effective group programme for those with a history of…
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.…