Review – Exercise to prevent falls – Gardner (2000)
A systematic review of the research trials evaluating the effect of exercise on reducing falls in older people. Published in 2000, this paper can be viewed here.
Exercise Referral Systems: A National Quality Assurance Framework, DoH (2001)
The National Quality Assurance Framework provides guidelines for exercise referral systems, with the aim of improving standards among existing exercise referral schemes, and helping the development of new ones. The Framework focuses primarily on the most common model of exercise referral system, where the GP or practice nurse refers patients to facilitates such as leisure…
A Question of Balance – Fit Pro 2008
Sheena Gawler and Dawn Skelton wrote this article for FitPro in 2008. Click here to download.
Exercise for Strong Bones: A Step-by-step Program to Prevent Osteoporosis – Susie Dinan and Joan Bassey
Exercise for Strong Bones: A Step-by-step Program to Prevent Osteoporosis and Stay Fit and Active for Life.
This book is spiral bound so you can turn a page and view it while exercising.
Joan Bassey and Susie Dinan.
Available from Amazon.
Falls, Fragility and Fractures (2001) – Cryer
The Case for and Strategies to implement a joint Health and Modernisation Plan for Falls and Osteoporosis
by Colin Cryer and Sanjeev Patel – Historical Document.
This is a pdf and takes a few minutes to download, click here.
Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults
C. Jones, Debra Rose. The first book to detail the fundamental knowledge and skills associated with the curriculum standards for training physical activity instructors of older adults. The proposed standards were developed by a national coalition of senior fitness specialists and published in 1998 in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. Physical Activity Instruction…
Exercise for Healthy Ageing – Dawn Skelton
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…
EfS – Original RCT of the STARTER exercises used in the EfS training on function and quality of life
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,…
SLM – Senior peer activity mentor training to encourage participation
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.
To view the abstract, published in Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, click here.
FaME – Rationale for an exercise programme to prevent falls (1999)
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…