‘Enjoy Later Life’ is a peer mentor training programme that enables volunteers to work with older people to support independent living. The report will highlight the successes of the training, points for consideration in the subsequent training programmes and opportunities for further development. In addition, this report will highlight the health benefits for the Cotswold…
The Impact of Physical Activity Motivators (PAMS) on the Physical Activity and Leisure Scheme (PALS). The PAM Scheme runs along side the PAL Scheme and gives people who have completed the PALS the opportunity to volunteer to become a PAM and help individuals who are being referred to the programme. The PAMS meet and greet…
CHAMPS (Community Healthy Activities Model Program For Seniors) is a public health model program to promote increased lifetime physical activity levels of seniors. Substantial scientific evidence supports increased physical activity as a promising approach to improve the health and well-being of seniors. Accordingly, CHAMPS promotes and facilitates physically active lifestyles for seniors. It encourages participants…
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
