Services
Client and Community Education
The Institute of Healthy Ageing can provide workshops and seminars for small or large groups (such a U3A, Rotary and other service groups, and the Mens’ shed), which are aim tp provide people in the local community to learn about their bodies and the changes which happen with age, but also provides listeners with information about which exercises are the most appropriate to maintain strength, range mobility and independence.
Organisational Education and Training
The Institute of Healthy Ageing is committed to providing evidence-based information and best practice to encourage aged care workers, and health & fitness professionals to work with older clients in the most appropriate way. Education and Training for the following groups can be organised for the following groups:-
- Home Care / Aged Care staff – A variety of topic concerning “enabling and re-enabling” strategies for clients, manual handling, basic exercise planning can be modified to suit your organisational needs.
- Fitness Professionals – Topics concerning musculo-skeletal and neurological diseases, ageing, mobility, and the implications for exercise programming and functional anatomy, can be covered during professional development workshops for CEP points.
- Massage Professionals – Topics concerning mobility, functional anatomy, orthopaedic conditions and post surgical care, can be covered during professional development workshops for CEP points.
Client Assessment, Home Assessments and Exercise Programme Planning and Development
The Institute of Healthy Ageing is also concerned with assisting individuals to plan for the future, through:-
- Home assessments, including falls environmental risk assessments, and home design advice
- Client assessments- including the assessment of range, strength, functional capacity , balance and falls risk
- The design of individual exercise programmes for clients to assist with strengthening parts of the body which have weakened, stretch part of the body which have become restricted, postural correction, along with falls prevention exercise programmes.
Assisting Home Care and Community Care Organisations, with policy and procedure development around enabling and re-enabling clients to mobilise and function with greater capacity.
The Institute of Health Ageing can also assist with:-
- The development of client screening forms and manual handling strategies.
- The development of simple through to complex care plans, with a focus on goals setting to solve problems concerning mobility and function.
- Design policies around providing care which enable ageing clients to be more independent.
- Assist with client information sharing such as client information booklets, and newsletters.
- Assist with the design of simple but effective exercise systems and falls prevention programmes to enable clients to be as independent as possible.