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.
Review – The role of the OT in falls prevention – Petersen 2008
Petersen and Clemson write a review of the role of Occupational Therapy in falls prevention, published in OT Practice 2008. Click here to view.
Exercise Referral Systems: A National Quality Assurance Framework, DoH (2001)
The National Quality Assurance Framework provides guidelines for exercise referral systems, with the aim of improving standards among existing exercise referral schemes, and helping the development of new ones. The Framework focuses primarily on the most common model of exercise referral system, where the GP or practice nurse refers patients to facilitates such as leisure…
A Question of Balance – Fit Pro 2008
Sheena Gawler and Dawn Skelton wrote this article for FitPro in 2008. Click here to download.
Breaking down the barriers – FitPro 2008
Breaking down the barriers, by Bob Laventure and Dawn Skelton – Fitpro Magazine March 2008.
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Living well with dementia: Guidance for exercise instructors and wellness leaders
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…
Don’t mention the F Word!
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…
Falls, Fragility and Fractures (2001) – Cryer
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by Colin Cryer and Sanjeev Patel – Historical Document.
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Preventing Accidental Injury: Priorities for Action, DoH (2002)
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
Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults
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…