The Functional Fitness MOT – Translating practice into evidence The Functional Fitness MOT programme has now been operational for nearly 5 years and during that time, over 1,000 professionals from the health, physical activity and adult and social care sector have attended more than 50 training events across the UK. At Later Life Training we…
Public Health England, in Jan 2017, published their Falls and Fractures Consensus Statement and confirmed that FaME sessions delivered by PSIs were cost-effective (PHE 2017). More recently, Gateshead Older People’s Assembly had independent research done on their return on investment (GOPA, 2017). “Gateshead Older People’s Assembly is a unique community-based organisation working with and for…
Dawn Skelton (LLT Director and Professor of ageing and health at Glasgow Caledonian University) gave a Keynote at the British Geriatrics Society Annual Conference in London on 22 Nov 2017. Her talk, entitled, Exercise for Frailty and Sarcopenia: Challenges and Opportunities, proposed that the evidence for the positive effects of exercise on muscle strength, sarcopenia…
Professor Dawn Skelton, Director of LLT and Professor of Ageing and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University, was awarded the 2017 British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award at the BGS Annual Conference in London on the 22nd November 2017, its 70th Anniversary year. She received this award for her research and her work…
LLT prides itself on ensuring evidence based practice and updating our courses based on research evidence. Thats why we have removed the pre-exercises stretches from our warm up! The stretches are still there, as developmental stretches at the end of a session when muscles are nicely warm. Download the rationale behind their removal here.
We are very happy to announce AGILE endorsement of LLTs PSI and OEP training (2017). These courses used to be endorsed by the CSP, however, the CSP stopped endorsement of all courses in 2016. It was important for us to seek alternative endorsement to reflect our ongoing commitment to evidence based practice and to raise the bar…
We have had a great response to our LLT Statement on OEP/PSI Implementation which had 10 simple key messages for commissioners of services and funders of programmes and training in falls prevention exercise. LLT have 14 years of experience working with services across the UK and into Europe. From implementing and evaluating the first falls exercise service…
In January 2017, the member organisations of the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group (NFPCG), hosted by Public Health England, published the ‘Falls and fracture consensus statement: supporting commissioning for prevention’. This was aimed at local commissioners and strategic leads with a remit for falls and bone health and detailed key interventions, approaches to commissioning and…
Calling out to all LLT qualified instructors (PSI/EfS/OEP/CBE/OA) to remember to ensure they have made their profile public on the LLT Instructor Profile. We also encourage you to promote your services on the SALUSA website, a social enterprise which aims to get information on activities for older people easily available. Read here about Salusa and visit…
Age UK Bolton have 3 exciting job opportunities. For full details please click on the below links: Active Ageing Assistant Active Ageing Assistant (Community Services) JD Falls Prevention Co-ordinator Falls Prevention Co-ordinator Job Description and specification – June 2017 Strength & Balance Exercise Instructor Strength Balance Exercise Instructor Job Description and Specification 23 May 2017…
