Physical activity trainers from the four Health and Social Services Boards participated in a pilot of the Leicester College Chair-based Exercise Leadership course (the LLT CBE course). The evaluation that follows is a summary of their feedback from the two day training course, which took place on 11 and 12 June 2002. Participants were assessed…
In 2010 the American Geriatrics and British Geriatrics Society reviews their guidelines to prevent falls. Click here to see the guidelines.
In 2004, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence published its guidance on falls prevention. Part of the guidance included evidence based exercise opportunities for people with a history of falls.
You can view the quick reference guide here, or view the full guidelines on the NICE website.
The American Senior Fitness Association is proud to have been one of the original coalition members that developed the American National Standards for Preparing Senior Fitness Instructors* and to be a recognized supporting organization of the following international guidelines.
Susie Dinan worked alongside other contibutors to produce these guidelines. Click here to view the guidelines.
Exercise and Falls Prevention – Review by Skelton in CME:Geriatric Medicine, 2007. Click here to view.
Exercise and Injury Prevention- Skelton and Beyer 2001, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Sports Medicine. Click here to view.
Petersen and Clemson write a review of the role of Occupational Therapy in falls prevention, published in OT Practice 2008. Click here to view.
What is the role of falls? Dr Jacqueline Close and others have written a very good review of the risk factors for falls and interventions to reduce falls. You can download a pdf of this paper by clicking here.
In 1997, Campbell and colleagues published seminal work on exercise and falls prevention. The exercise programme (OEP) was to become the basis of many future RCTs and formed the home exercise component of the FaME (PSI) trials by Skelton et al. later on. Click here to view this first paper.
Campbell in 1999 published the results 2 years on from the original RCT, particularly considering the effect on older people aged 80+. Click here to view.
