Fitness for Life – Susie Dinan and Craig Sharp
This book, written in 1998 by Susie Dinan and Dr Craig Sharp gives advice on fitness and exercise in later years.
Piatkus Books. ISBN 0-7499-1577-3
Available in good book shops and from Amazon.
Alive and Kicking
Julie Sobczak. (chapters by Susie Dinan and Piers Simey)
Available from Amazon.
Exercise for Healthy Ageing – Dawn Skelton
by Dawn Skelton. This illustrated A4 work book contains descriptions of exercises to help maintain strength and balance. The book has a hard cover, comes with a stand, and is spiral bound at the top enabling each page to be flipped over during a workout. Each exercise is also clearly illustrated and described. It used…
Preventing Falls; Strength and Balance Exercises for Healthy Ageing
S.Land & Susie Dinan. An Age UK Home Exercise Booklet designed by Sheena Land (Gawler) and Susie Dinan from LLT.
This booklet s is available to download free from Age UK.
EfS – Cochrane Review of benefits of exercise in patients following Stroke
Published in 2009, this Cochrane Review, authored by Saunders and co-authored by Gillian Mead, one of the developers of the EfS Course, reported on a systematic review of the published evidence base of RCTs assessing the effect of exercise in patients following stroke. The positive effects of cardiorespiratory exercise, involving waking were demonstrated on speed,…
EfS – Original RCT of the STARTER exercises used in the EfS training on function and quality of life
Published in 2007, the results of a randomised controlled trial comparing with relaxation on physical function and quality of life in people who had been discharged from rehabilitation. The paper describes the background need for an effective group programme for those leaving the rehabilitation setting. The programme, delivered over 12 weeks, 3 times a week,…
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.
FaME – abstract of preliminary data on falls reduction (2004)
This abstract, presented at the 2004 6th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity, Canada, describes the preliminary analysis of the falls data in the randomised controlled trial of FaME, delivered by PSI’s. To search for the abstract, scroll to Friday afternoon’s Invited Symposia and then down to S15. Physical Activity Rehabilitation After Falls, alternatively…
PSI – The Postural Stability Instructor (2004)
This abstract, given at the 2004 6th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity in London, Ontario, Canada, describes the role of the Postural Stability Instructor. It describes, to a World Audience, the provision of standardised, evidence based, national training. The abstracts were published in Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. To find the correct…
Later Life Training: Exercise and Physical Activity Training for Working With Older People in the UK
This links you to an abstract presented at the 6th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity in London, Ontario, Canada on Wed 4th August 2004. The abstract details the work of Later Life Training in ensuring evidence based, standardised, national training to engage frailer older adults in exercise to prevent falls and maintain independence.…