Physical Activity and Exercise – Later Life Training

Make Today Count – 1st Steps in Dementia Impact Report (2019)

These are just some of the findings from those attending the 2018 programme of 1st Steps in Dementia Study Days. During these Study Days, participants were encouraged to record their learning and intended post course actions under the heading of Make Today Count. The findings have now been included in a summary report based on…

March 26, 2019Dementia care, News, Resources for ProfessionalsBy Later Life Training

People living with dementia and physical activity “Having a conversation”

This week is Dementia Awareness Week. Working with local Alzheimer Society Service User Review Panels (SURPs) in England, Bob Laventure had a series of informal conversations with people living with dementia about taking part in physical activity. They talked about their views, interests and experiences and the challenges they face in taking up and/or continuing a range…

May 18, 2017Dementia care, News, Resources for ProfessionalsBy Dawn Skelton

Functional Fitness MOT training – Impact Assessment 2014

The BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and Health have published their first year impact assessment on the Functional Fitness MOT training run in conjunction with Later Life Training and Glasgow Caledonian University. Download it now – Functional Fitness MOT impact assessment_GCU_LLT_BHFNCPAH_2014. The headlines are: The Functional Fitness MOT training programme has to-date reached over…

August 1, 2014Evidence Base for LLT Courses, News, Older Adult Exercise and Physical Activity Theory and Guidance, Seminars and Conferences of InterestBy Dawn Skelton

Physical Activity in Later Life – ADNFS (1999)

Physical Activity in Later Life: Further Analysis of the Allied Dunbar National Fitness Survey and the Health Education Authority Survey of Activity and Health. Skelton DA, Young A, Walker A, Hoinville E. Health Education Authority, The Stationary Office, London. 1999. Click here to download.

January 2, 2011Older Adult Exercise and Physical Activity Theory and GuidanceBy Dawn Skelton

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…

August 15, 2010Books on leading exercise with older people, News, Older Adult Exercise and Physical Activity Theory and GuidanceBy Dawn Skelton

SLM – Senior peer activity mentor training to encourage participation

This abstract, presented at the 2008 7th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity, discusses the development, content and evaluation of the Someone Like Me programme.

To view the abstract, published in Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, click here.

June 15, 2010SLM CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Later Life Training collaborating on NIHR research project – ProAct65+

Dawn Skelton, Susie Dinan-Young and Bob Laventure are co-investigators on a large National Institute of Health Research Health Technology Assessment research grant. This multi-centre RCT trial in primary care (London, Nottingham and Derby) compares a community group exercise programme (FaME) with home based exercise (OEP) and with usual care for people aged 65 and over.…

June 1, 2010News, Research and Research OrganisationsBy Dawn Skelton

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