NICE PH54 guidance was reissued this September (2014). This guideline makes recommendations on exercise referral schemes to promote physical activity for people aged 19 and older. It is an update of recommendation 5 in ‘Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity‘ (NICE public health guidance 2). It focuses on exercise referral schemes that try…
Do you work in the care sector? Could you get your residential setting involved? Go 4 Gold challenges go live! Go for Gold offers a choice of 5 physical activity challenges. Participants can do just one element or have a go at all of them. The Try-athlon Challenge –choose from a range of 6 simple…
A very useful resource from Sweden – Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease – is available to search and download. It gives an overview of all the research evidence behind prevention and management of disease with physical activity and exercise across the age range. A “must-read” for those of you who work…
SportEx – The journals that bring to life the medicine behind sport and physical activity. This hopefully will come as a surprise to those of you who don’t know us personally but sportEX is run from a house in a little residential street in Wimbledon. It started out with just me, quickly joined by Alexa,…
How can the Primary Care Team help Older People stay active and maintain independence? Skelton DA. Update (GPs) Feb: 78-81, 2006. .This can be viewed as a PDF
Guidelines for Exercise Programming for the Frail Elderly have been published by the Better Ageing Collaborative based on the results of the European Commission Framework V Better Ageing Project. The project used the FaME programme as the basis of the exercise intervention and the original protocol for the FaME exercise intervention is cited. You can…
Breaking down the barriers, by Bob Laventure and Dawn Skelton – Fitpro Magazine March 2008.
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Older people’s views of advice about falls prevention: a qualitative study by Prof Lucy Yardley et al and published in 2006 in Health Education Research.
This article can be downloaded here.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence in 2006 published its guidance on Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity.
It links to the published guidance and key documents.
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Physical activity interventions targeting older adults. A critical review and recommendations by A King, WJ Rejeski and D Buchner, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine in 1998.
This article can be downloaded here.
