Happy Holidays and SALE NOW ON!

We would like to wish you a very happy holiday and to celebrate we are offering a 50% discount on the OEP Audio downloads and CD from today until the 24th December 2012. To take advantage of this offer simply enter HOLIDAY in the coupon field at the checkout! P.S. don’t forget to come and…

December 9, 2012NewsBy Dawn Skelton

Opportunity to tender for Otago community classes and project in South Norfolk

Otago qualified and experienced? Have the capacity to work in South Norfolk and support Active Norfolk to instruct and coordinate a community Otago falls prevention programme? Then Nick Clarke would like to hear from you. Please see the Invitation to Tender and the service specification for the project or email Nick.Clarke@activenorfolk.org for the chance to…

November 22, 2012NewsBy Dawn Skelton

WINNERS of the Otagothon 2012 Challenge

The Otagothon 2012 Challenge was issued by Later Life Training to Otago Exercise Leaders and their groups in the UK as a means of involving their participants in the unique opportunities in 2012 to celebrate Active Ageing and participation in physical activity. The Challenge took place across the UK and was timed to coincide with…

September 16, 2012News, OEP CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Otagothon 2012 Challenge – are you up for it?

The EVENT for 2012 is now closed, but keep your eye out for the 2013 challenge 😉 You can find out who won and what they did here. The Otagothon 2012 Challenge is being issued by Later Life Training to Otago Exercise Programme (OEP) Leaders and their groups as a means of involving their participants…

June 6, 2012News, Resources for ProfessionalsBy Dawn Skelton

RCP Report 2012 – NHS exercise programmes a success with older people but not always evidence-based

Last week the Royal College of Physicians published a new audit on exercise provision in falls services across the UK. Some of the findings were, unfortunately, not unexpected! This survey was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and carried out by the Royal College of Physicians’ Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit (CEEU). It…

March 31, 2012Falls care, News, OEP Course, PSI CourseBy Dawn Skelton

INSPIRE – Spring 2011 LLT Newsletter

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…

May 31, 2011Evidence Base for LLT Courses, News, Older Adult Exercise and Physical Activity Theory and Guidance, Seminars and Conferences of InterestBy Dawn Skelton

OEP delivered as a computer rehabilitation game?

Dawn has two PhD students working with her at Glasgow Caledonian University, looking at developing games for health that can be ‘played’ by older people on a computer at home. One is considering the best interface for physiotherapists to be able to monitor and progress the exercise by receiving information on the games useage and…

April 24, 2011OEP Course, Research and Research OrganisationsBy Dawn Skelton

Review – Exercise and Falls Prevention – Skelton 2007

Exercise and Falls Prevention – Review by Skelton in CME:Geriatric Medicine, 2007. Click here to view.

December 31, 2010Falls care, Older Adult Exercise and Physical Activity Theory and GuidanceBy Dawn Skelton

Review – Exercise and Injury Prevention – Skelton 2003

Exercise and Injury Prevention- Skelton and Beyer 2001, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Sports Medicine. Click here to view.

December 31, 2010Falls care, Older Adult Exercise and Physical Activity Theory and GuidanceBy Dawn Skelton

Research – Original OEP trial – RCT 1997

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.

December 31, 2010OEP CourseBy Dawn Skelton

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