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.…

Later Life Training collaborating on NIHR research project – ProAct65+

Dawn Skelton, Susie Dinan-Young and Bob Laventure are co-investigators on a large National Institute of Health Research Health Technology Assessment research grant. This multi-centre RCT trial in primary care (London, Nottingham and Derby) compares a community group exercise programme (FaME) with home based exercise (OEP) and with usual care for people aged 65 and over.…

Dawn Skelton working on MRC research project ENVISAGE

Dawn Skelton is a co-investigator on a large Medical Research Council research grant entitled “ENVISAGE-Promoting Physical independence by involving users in rehabilitation through dynamic visualisations of movement data”. The large project team include Prof Phil Rowe at the University of Strathclyde, Prof Alaistair MacDonald at the Glasgow School of Art and other co-investigators at Glasgow…