Does the ‘Otago exercise programme’ reduce mortality and falls in older adults?: a systematic review and meta-analysis. This paper published in Age and Ageing in 2010 by Thomas et al. shows that the Otago Exercise Programme significantly reduces the risk of death and falling in older community-dwelling adults. They reviewed 7 trials with over 1500…
Bob Laventure and Claudine Aherne have written three articles for the ICAA on working with people living with Dementia. The BHFNC are currently developing a programme to support those coordinating and delivering services and physical activity programmes for people living with dementia in line with the publication of the National Dementia Strategy in England (and…
Research from Help the Aged (now AgeUK) and the University’s of Southampton & Manchester, examines the attitudes and feelings of older people towards falls prevention services and resources. It explores different approaches and ways of communicating falls prevention messages to older people, as well as ways of encouraging older people to take up falls prevention…
Sarah Wheatley, a PSI, became the Physical Activity Advisor for Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust – To read the article in HealthEx Magazine’s Career Pathways click here. Sarah Wheatley is also an LLT Tutor.
Bob Laventure and Dawn Skelton visited the home of the Otago Home Exercise Programme in Dunedin, New Zealand in August 2008. They were there to present to the highly acclaimed Researchers Prof John Campbell and Dr Clare Robertson and a group of 50 researchers and public on the implementation of the OEP in the UK,…
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by Colin Cryer and Sanjeev Patel – Historical Document.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.
Published in 2002, “Preventing Accidental Injury – Priorities for Action”, Report to the Chief Medical Officer from The Accidental Injury Task Force, can be viewed on
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…
Preventing accidental falls in and around the home – information for friends, neighbours, relatives and carers of older people.
This leaflet is now out of print, but you can download the pdf here.
How to avoid falls in the home – Information for older people. This booklet gives advice on how to Be safe….. Be Careful….Be Independent.
This leaflet is now out of print, but a pdf can be downloaded here.
