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LLT Directors research papers in the Top 10 cited articles from Age and Ageing

Age and Ageing, the UK’s most prominent research journal for those working with older people, has just reached its 40th Anniversary. It has published a review of all its papers and editors over the last 40 years, including lists of its Top Ten Cited Papers in different decades and of all time. We are pleased…

January 12, 2013CBE Course, News, PSI Course, Resources for ProfessionalsBy Dawn Skelton

Research – seated balance training in residential care – McMurdo – 2000

This home based seated balance program in community dwelling older people considered falls risk. Only 68% of residents completed the 6 month intervention. Seated balance exercises did not reduce the risk of falls in these older people. It may be that the exercises were not sufficiently vigorous or that to improve balance exercise must be performed…

December 8, 2012CBE CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Research – low versus high intensity strength training in frail elders – Seynnes – 2004

This study measured the dose response effect of a free weight based strength training program in nursing home residents. Groups trained at either forty percent or eighty percent of their one repetition max three times a week for ten weeks. Knee strength and endurance as well as function improved in both groups. Only the high…

December 8, 2012CBE CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Research – CBE in long term care – Baum – 2003

This pilot RCT was to determine whether a strength and flexibility program in frail long term care residents would improve function. Class was one hour three times a week for six months. There were improvements in strength, range of movement and balance. Click here to read more.

December 8, 2012CBE CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Article – Sit Fit – East Anglian Daily Times 2009

This article describes the successes of CBE classes in East Anglia. Click here to view.

January 1, 2011CBE Course, In the pressBy Dawn Skelton

Research – CBE leaders in falls prevention service – Allen 1999

This paper by Allen et al, in Physiotherapy, describes the use of CBE leaders within a falls prevention service. Click here to read.

January 1, 2011CBE Course, Falls careBy Dawn Skelton

CBE leaders within Falls Services – Weymouth and Portland 2004

This article, in Nursing Older People, describes the falls services in Weymouth and Portland and the use of CBE leaders within that service. To view the article, click here.

January 1, 2011CBE Course, Falls careBy Dawn Skelton

Evaluation of CBE training – Northern Ireland HPA HSC 2002

Physical activity trainers from the four Health and Social Services Boards participated in a pilot of the Leicester College Chair-based Exercise Leadership course (the LLT CBE course). The evaluation that follows is a summary of their feedback from the two day training course, which took place on 11 and 12 June 2002. Participants were assessed…

January 1, 2011CBE CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Research – Strength, flexibility and stamina training – Skelton 1996

Dawn Skelton, in 1996, published a paper in Physiotherapy describing a 12 week controlled trial of seated strength, flexibility and stamina training with women aged 75 and over with multiple conditions and co-morbidities. The results were astounding. The programme, designed with Susie Dinan, forms the main exercises in the LLT Chair Based Exercise Leaders course.…

December 31, 2010CBE CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Research – Strength Training Older People – Skelton – JAGS 1995

Dawn Skelton, in 1995, published (in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society) the results of a 12 week randomised controlled trial of seated strength training in women aged 75 and over. The effect was a rejuventation of some 20 years of lost strength just by taking part in strengthening exercises with therabands three times a…

December 31, 2010CBE CourseBy Dawn Skelton

Category Archives: CBE Course

LLT Directors research papers in the Top 10 cited articles from Age and Ageing

Research – seated balance training in residential care – McMurdo – 2000

Research – low versus high intensity strength training in frail elders – Seynnes – 2004

Research – CBE in long term care – Baum – 2003

Article – Sit Fit – East Anglian Daily Times 2009

Research – CBE leaders in falls prevention service – Allen 1999

CBE leaders within Falls Services – Weymouth and Portland 2004

Evaluation of CBE training – Northern Ireland HPA HSC 2002

Research – Strength, flexibility and stamina training – Skelton 1996

Research – Strength Training Older People – Skelton – JAGS 1995

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