ABLE Bodies Balance Training – by Sue Scott, offers an activity-based program to improve balance and mobility for both fit and frail older adults. This practical instructor’s guide provides more than 130 balance and mobility exercises that enhance older adults’ abilities to maintain balance in completing their everyday tasks.
Available to buy from Human Kinetics.
Produce innovative, informative products in all areas of physical activity that help people worldwide lead healthier, more active lives. The greatest challenge facing Human Kinetics is to convert all information about physical activity into knowledge–information that people can use to make a positive difference in their lives.
Website: http://www.humankinetics.com/
We supply high quality, specialist sports medical products direct to your door. Our range of products include supports, braces, footbeds, insoles and heel pads as well as sports nutrition, sports massage and cold therapy products to accelerate injury rehabilitation.
Website: http://www.return2fitness.co.uk/
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
The Case for and Strategies to implement a joint Health and Modernisation Plan for Falls and Osteoporosis
by Colin Cryer and Sanjeev Patel – Historical Document.
This is a pdf and takes a few minutes to download, click here.
A DVD specifically aimed at promoting physical activity within black and ethnic minority elders, produced following research by PRIAE. Further information about PRIAE can be found here.
To download an order form from PRIAE click here
Cost – suggested donation of £1.50 plus p & p.
Be Strong, Be Steady strength and balance exercises for healthy ageing by Help the Aged. This video contains a programme of chair-based and standing exercises devised specifically for older people. The programme is introduced by people who describe the important role exercise plays in their lives. Each exercise is demonstrated by a specialist and then…
Step to the Future is a new programme of exercises from Help the Aged. Presented by Seona Ross, who celebrated her 90th birthday that year (and now in memory of her wonderful teaching skills as she sadly passed away late 2011), and advised by postural stability experts Sheena Gawler and Susie Dinan, this programme of…
by Joanne Oram
A guide for Recreational and Diversional Therapists including a comprehensive A – Z list of 150 activity ideas, bingo/housie call outs list, quizzes, word games and a whole lot more.
For activity and care staff engaged in developing an active care home. Obtainable from Age UK and NAPA.
