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.
This paper, published in 2004, details the development and validation of the FRAT – falls risk tool for use by GPs with older people living in the community. FRAT to download.
Stathi et al. published in 2007, in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, a qualitative review of older peoples views of classes delivered in their nursing homes by PSIs. Click here to view the paper.
Geriatric medicine is the branch of general medicine concerned with the health care of older people. The term geriatrics comes from the Greek geron meaning ‘old man’ and iatros meaning ‘healer’. Older people are the main users of health and social care services and their high morbidity rates, different patterns of disease presentation, slower response…
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.
Campbell in 1999 published the results 2 years on from the original RCT, particularly considering the effect on older people aged 80+. Click here to view.