Paula Swift and her team at Livewell SouthWest has just provided a service evaluation of their work in Plymouth. Fabulous results that highlight the benefits of FaME delivered with fidelity (dose, behaviour change, duration and progressive overload for training gains!). Well done Paula and Team! Read more about their work here. You can download a…
The Older People and Frailty Policy Research Unit were requested by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to examine whether dance-based interventions are effective in preventing falls, reducing risk of falls, or preventing fear of falls in older adults, and to provide an overview of the evidence for cost-effectiveness of dance-based interventions for…
Why do we need to have a Referral Form? AGILE, working in collaboration with Later Life Training, have produced a Referral Form that provides vital information for PSIs and OEP Leaders to support decisions for: suitability into programmes, (and venues and class sizes) baseline exercise selection and challenge, ongoing progression and tailoring, and scope of…
A new report from the Physiological Society and the Centre for Ageing Better has recommended Make Movement Your Mission (MMYM) as a key part of a national resilience programme to support older people over the winter months. You can read an article on the Physiological Society Website here and there was a piece in the…
Bob Laventure write an article on the FFMOT for the Winter 2014 AGILITY Journal (official Journal of AGILE, specialist section for Older People within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy). This article introduces the FFMOT and was in advance of the AGILE National Learning Days on the FFMOT in 2015, delivered by LLT. Read the article…
Joan Vine and Vicky Shaw, two OTs in South East London spoke to OT News about how they applied their qualification in FaME as PSIs to their practice as OTs. Read the article here.
Dawn Skelton has produced a BLOG for the BGS Autumn Series (Oct 2018) where she discusses the perils of a hospital stay for older people and what health professionals can do to change the culture of prolonged sitting in hospital and on discharge. You can read the blog here.
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…
Dawn Skelton appeared on Trust Me I’m a Doctor on the 8th Sept (8pm BBC2) showing Dr Saleyha Ahsan how to improve balance and talking about the Otago Exercise Programme. There is a great web resource produced by the BBC2 as well, including a video of the exercises seen in the clip. Take a look – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v3pwk…
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