We have to thank Christies Care for capturing such wonderful positive improvements in function of the clients they support with 24 hour care at home. You can read their full evaluation here. “Ever since I’ve been trialling ‘Care to Move’ with Doris, she’s been doing a lot more and there were lots of things I hadn’t…
The Centre for Ageing Better has recently commissioned the Healthy Ageing Research Group (University of Manchester) and Consultants from Later Life Training to work with local areas to increase provision and uptake of strength and balance training programmes.
Download the Outline here.
PSI (FaME) was always designed and evidenced for working with those who live in their own homes. But as many of you know, we give chair based starting alternatives to every exercise and frailer people can make a start with the programme. Sophie Thomas, a PSI doing her degree in Brighton, chose to do her…
We are pleased to announce that the colleagues in Greece have translated some of our freely available resources for practitioners and older people. The Geriatric section of Panhellenic Physiotherapist’s Association and Prof Vasiliki Sakellari have translated the following: Physical Activity Guidelines for Health of Older People (CMO Physical Activity Guidelines for Older People) Functional…
Recently, LLT have been working with Dance to Health to increase strength and balance opportunities for older people. We have had a number of queries on the adaptation of FaME/OEP into dance and its effectiveness. To support our PSIs and OEP Leaders, and commissioners of services, we have issued a statement which can be read…
The Functional Fitness MOT – Translating practice into evidence The Functional Fitness MOT programme has now been operational for nearly 5 years and during that time, over 1,000 professionals from the health, physical activity and adult and social care sector have attended more than 50 training events across the UK. At Later Life Training we…
Public Health England, in Jan 2017, published their Falls and Fractures Consensus Statement and confirmed that FaME sessions delivered by PSIs were cost-effective (PHE 2017). More recently, Gateshead Older People’s Assembly had independent research done on their return on investment (GOPA, 2017). “Gateshead Older People’s Assembly is a unique community-based organisation working with and for…
Dawn Skelton (LLT Director and Professor of ageing and health at Glasgow Caledonian University) gave a Keynote at the British Geriatrics Society Annual Conference in London on 22 Nov 2017. Her talk, entitled, Exercise for Frailty and Sarcopenia: Challenges and Opportunities, proposed that the evidence for the positive effects of exercise on muscle strength, sarcopenia…
Professor Dawn Skelton, Director of LLT and Professor of Ageing and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University, was awarded the 2017 British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award at the BGS Annual Conference in London on the 22nd November 2017, its 70th Anniversary year. She received this award for her research and her work…
LLT prides itself on ensuring evidence based practice and updating our courses based on research evidence. Thats why we have removed the pre-exercises stretches from our warm up! The stretches are still there, as developmental stretches at the end of a session when muscles are nicely warm. Download the rationale behind their removal here.
