Specialist exercise training for people working with older populations
Providing specialist, evidence based, effective exercise training for health and exercise professionals working with older people and frailer older people.
A DVD specifically aimed at promoting physical activity within black and ethnic minority elders, produced following research by PRIAE. Further information about PRIAE can be found here.
Be Strong, Be Steady strength and balance exercises for healthy ageing by Help the Aged. This video contains a programme of chair-based and standing exercises devised specifically for older people. The programme is introduced by people who describe the important role exercise plays in their lives. Each exercise is demonstrated by a specialist and then…
Step to the Future is a new programme of exercises from Help the Aged. Presented by Seona Ross, who celebrated her 90th birthday that year (and now in memory of her wonderful teaching skills as she sadly passed away late 2011), and advised by postural stability experts Sheena Gawler and Susie Dinan, this programme of…
A guide for Recreational and Diversional Therapists including a comprehensive A – Z list of 150 activity ideas, bingo/housie call outs list, quizzes, word games and a whole lot more.
The WHO have produced a number of publications on how to increase activity in older people, including the Heidelberg Guidelines on Promotion of Activity to Older People. These documents are available in a number of different languages. All links available on this URL.
Miriam E. Nelson & Sarah Wernick MD. Gives some basic information on the skeletal structure, how bones work and what they need, and also includes advice for men on how to adapt the plan for themselves.
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…