American Heart Association and American Stroke Association Update to Stroke Guidelines 2008
Update to the AHA/ASA Recommendations for the Prevention of Stroke in
Patients With Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack.
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World Health Organisation – Falls Prevention Strategies (2004/2007)
Interventions to prevent accidental falls among older people. Skelton DA, Todd C. World Health Organisation Health Evidence Network Document. 2004.
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This was followed up in 2007 by a series of resources for health care implementers – visit the WHO website on falls prevention or download their Global Strategy.
Exercise Referral Systems: A National Quality Assurance Framework, DoH (2001)
The National Quality Assurance Framework provides guidelines for exercise referral systems, with the aim of improving standards among existing exercise referral schemes, and helping the development of new ones. The Framework focuses primarily on the most common model of exercise referral system, where the GP or practice nurse refers patients to facilitates such as leisure…
National Service Framework for Older People, DoH (2001)
In 2001, the Department of Health published its “National Service Framework for Older People”. With 8 standards of care for older people, 5 included exercise as a major determinant of health or rehabilitation. The original NSFOP executive summary, full document, progress report in 2003 and the “New Ambition for Old Age” continuation report can all…
British Association of Stroke Physicians Newsletter
The LLT EfS Course is also mentioned in the Nov 2010 edition of the British Association of Stroke Physicians Newsletter.
Best Practice Guidance for the Development of Exercise after Stroke Services in Community Settings
The LLT EfS course is recommended in the Best Practice Guidance for the Development of Exercise after Stroke Services in Community Settings November 2010, which can be downloaded from the Exercise After Stroke Website. This website is part of a Scottish Government funded project to scope the provision of Exercise after Stroke services across Scotland…
UK Stroke Forum on Training
The UKFST was launched on the 29th October 2010. The UKFST will support the development of stroke training and education UK
wide through the Stroke-Specific Education Framework (SSEF). Applications
for endorsement will be made through the UKFST website. For further information, a flyer can be downloaded here.
Don’t mention the F Word!
Research from Help the Aged (now AgeUK) and the University’s of Southampton & Manchester, examines the attitudes and feelings of older people towards falls prevention services and resources. It explores different approaches and ways of communicating falls prevention messages to older people, as well as ways of encouraging older people to take up falls prevention…
Our Healthier Nation (1999) DoH
The Our Healthier Nation Website is a major gateway to information on all aspects of Saving lives: Our Healthier Nation, the government-wide health strategy for England, published in July 1999. The OHN Website provides links to the wide range of related work across government. It aims to help professionals who are working to improve health…
Physical Activity and the Prevention and Management of Falls and Accidents among Older People – A Framework for Practice (1999) HEA
Physical Activity and the Prevention and Management of Falls and Accidents among Older People – A Framework for Practice can be downloaded from the link below.
http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/documents/physical_activity_prevoffalls.pdf