Are you an EfS Instructor? We have now produced a print friendly set of home exercise sheets that you can download and print off individual pages with a chance to add specific instructions. Click here to find out more.
Dawn Skelton appeared on Trust Me I’m a Doctor on the 8th Sept (8pm BBC2) showing Dr Saleyha Ahsan how to improve balance and talking about the Otago Exercise Programme. There is a great web resource produced by the BBC2 as well, including a video of the exercises seen in the clip. Take a look – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v3pwk…
Sheena Gawler has published the results on falls reduction in a low risk population of older adults after a 6 month PSI intervention and a 6 month OEP intervention. Conclusions: Community-dwelling older adults who joined an exercise intervention (FaME) aimed at increasing MVPA did not fall more during the intervention period, fell less and had…
New research published this week shows that FaME sessions delivered by PSIs to the general older population through primary care (not high risk fallers) for 6 months, significantly increased habitual physical activity (self reported moderate physical activity) by 15 minutes a day even a year after the intervention finishes. These sessions also significantly reduced the…
LLT have worked closely with the Alliance (Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland) to produce a strength and balance home exercise leaflet for those OF ANY AGE with long term conditions. You can download the leaflet here.
The BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and Health have published their first year impact assessment on the Functional Fitness MOT training run in conjunction with Later Life Training and Glasgow Caledonian University. Download it now – Functional Fitness MOT impact assessment_GCU_LLT_BHFNCPAH_2014. The headlines are: The Functional Fitness MOT training programme has to-date reached over…
Welcome to the second INSPIRE newsletter 🙂 We are enjoying the relatively mild winter here in the highlands (compared to last year!). We have some updates on events in 2012 you may want to be part of, some great articles from instructors on the “frontline”, some snippets of new research and highlights of resources for…
Today we launched INSPIRE. Later Life Training qualified instructors, leaders and those who work closely with us have been asking for updates on a whole variety of things. We have a mix of updates on each of our courses, highlights from research (with our courses), highlights from practice (model services), upcoming events, thought provoking questions…
Later Life Training are supporting Active Ageing Week in Glasgow this year. Events run throughout Glasgow from the 6-12 June and are either free or heavily discounted so that older people in Glasgow can try out some of the many and varied opportunities to be more active. There is everything from tea dances to walking…
This home exercise booklet promotes strength and better balance. It was put together with lottery funding for the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Antrim Borough Council and the Northern Partnership for Physical Activity with exercise descriptions and pictures from Later Life Training. Please use responsibly but it is available to download free.
