Tag Archives: Volunteering

Someone Like Me: Increasing Participation in Physical Activity Among Seniors With Senior Peer Health Mentors

Abstract presented at the 7th World Congress on Active Ageing in Japan in 2008. Authors, the 3 LLt Directors, Bob Laventure, Susie Dinan and Dawn Skelton. To view the abstract, click here.

Get Moving Nottingham – LEAP Project

The Local Exercise Action pilot (LEAP) programme was an exciting public health programme funded by the Department of Health, Sport England and the Countryside Agency to test out and evaluate different evidence based ways to increase physical activity levels in the community. Nottingham involved peer mentors in their pilot, read the evaluation here.

Activity Friends – Nottingham

Activity Friends is a volunteer programme for the over 50’s designed to help people achieve a healthier lifestyle through increasing physical activity and befriending to alleviate social isolation. Volunteers are trained as ‘Activity Friends’ who then reach out to their peers in their local community. Support and encouragement is given on a one-to-one or a…

Cotswolds – Mentors to support active living

‘Enjoy Later Life’ is a peer mentor training programme that enables volunteers to work with older people to support independent living. The report will highlight the successes of the training, points for consideration in the subsequent training programmes and opportunities for further development. In addition, this report will highlight the health benefits for the Cotswold…

Physical Activity Motivators and their impact in Kirklees

The Impact of Physical Activity Motivators (PAMS) on the Physical Activity and Leisure Scheme (PALS). The PAM Scheme runs along side the PAL Scheme and gives people who have completed the PALS the opportunity to volunteer to become a PAM and help individuals who are being referred to the programme. The PAMS meet and greet…

Volunteering and Improved Health

Among a number of studies reporting on the benefit of volunteering and
mentoring upon the health of those involved as volunteers, Black and Living
(2004) reported that volunteering appears to exert its effects predominantly
upon mental health.

Further information on publications reporting health improvements in volunteers can be found by clicking here.

Braveheart: Mentors in Forth Valley

Forth Valley: “Braveheart” project: Supporting older people who have had heart attacks. The Braveheart Project is an innovative Ageing Well Health Demonstration Project which has looked at the feasibility and effect of training non-medical senior members of the local community to run mentoring groups to educate, support and empower patients aged 60 years and over…

CHAMPS – Senior Peer Mentoring for active lifestyles

CHAMPS (Community Healthy Activities Model Program For Seniors) is a public health model program to promote increased lifetime physical activity levels of seniors. Substantial scientific evidence supports increased physical activity as a promising approach to improve the health and well-being of seniors. Accordingly, CHAMPS promotes and facilitates physically active lifestyles for seniors. It encourages participants…