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Generations Working Together Care Homes
Carolyn Wilson
Falls Service Manager
Perth & Kinross
01738 473146
• Established – 2010
• 34 care homes registered• Meet quarterly
• Hub for national developments.
•Networking and support
• Awareness raising
•Sharing activity ideas/
resources and training
•Communication and
information hub
CHAN
• Annual Go4Gold Care Home Challenge (Olympics)
• Swimming programme
• Strength & Balance Exercise Training
• Walk leader Training
• Living Streets
• Living Voices project
• Ryder Cup and Golf Challenge
• Inter-care home Bowling event at indoor rink
Aspects Developed
• 62 care home staff trained in
Strength & Balance exercises
• Encouraging staff to support
increased walking with residents
• 19 care home staff trained as walk leaders
• Local walks created in the vicinity of the homes.
• Community invited to join these walks
• Some residents are joining community led walks.
• Links made with Living Streets
Paths for All/ Living Streets
The UK national charity
working with supporters
to create safe, attractive
streets where people
want to walk.http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/
Living Streets
• Living Streets creating an audit template involving older people
• Key stakeholders able to come together with the community to prioritise issues presenting a barrier to walking, and to identify opportunities for improvement
• Residents participate in an activity to help identify issues that affect them when out walking
• Also involving, carers, P&K Council Accident Prevention Officer, Live Active Leisure Paths for All Coordinator, P&K Vision, NHS Falls Service Manager, community council, schools and community members.
• Pilots in
– Luncarty House, Luncarty (village setting)
– Kincarathie House, Perth – (city home, located next to a busy road
• Both areas have different challenges.
Living Streets Pilot
Luncarty Living Streets Pilot
Involved the local nursery school, as well as the
community, P&K Vision, P&K Council Road Safety, Live
Active Leisure, Falls Service Manager
Living Streets Pilot - Luncarty
Short term recommendations:
Repair path edging
Provide contrasting line at path edge
Cut back overhanging branches and brambles to clear path
Clear grass from path edges and repair damaged path edge
Long term recommendation:
Assess lighting along the path
including drop kerbs and tactile paving
Living Streets - Kincarathie House, Perth
Recent street audit which also involved Kinnouill Primary
School. Kinnouill Primary and Kincarathie have other
intergenerational activities planned including a gardening project,
a reminiscence project, games then and now and further walks.
Perth College University of the
Highland and Islands
Outcomes
• Nov 14, 15 Fitness Instructors undertaking an HND in
Fitness, Health and Exercise trained as Strength &
Balance Exercise Instructors
• Jan – April 15, 3 students allocated to 5 care homes to
provide an exercise programme every Thursday for 12
weeks.
• Students plan, prescribe, deliver and evaluate exercise
sessions (applied exercise for special population groups)
Moncrieffe Nursing Home
Progressing to standing exercises
Craigieknowes Nursing Home
Enjoying the
exercises
Target Golf
throwing the
balls
Students Feedback from Moncrieffe
Nursing Home (week 7)
• Strength and Balance Exercises - Progressedonto the harder options of the exercises. Abit more difficult but manageable by all.
• Adaptations made for chair bound residents.
• Completed a total of 10 exercise, managingto do the exercises in a more slow andcontrolled movement with more repetitions
• Also managed to hold the exercise for alonger period of time.
• Clients enjoyed session
Student Feedback from
Beechgrove Residential
Home• Bowling & Skittles
• 14 clients present.
• When it was each clients turn theywould get up and walk to middle ofroom to take their shot.
• Everyone really enjoyed this and both teams got behind each other.
• Overall the session went really well and we are looking forward to next week.
Students Feedback from Robert
Douglas Memorial Home (week 7)
7 participants.
Anton did warm up and chair aerobics.
Craig did strength and balance exercises all 10
for 10 repetitions. All but 1 were standing
once again.
Played boccia again to finish up residents
favourite game, alternated throws between
right hand, left hand and eyes closed.
Everything went well.”
Carers feedback
• Carers have noted improvements each week in the residents ability
• Residents are able to rise from their chair better
• Residents look forward to the sessions and lovethe interaction with the students.
Perth & Kinross Care
Homes celebrate the
Ryder Cup 2014
Golf
Challenge
at Go4Gold
2014
Richmond House, Crieff and St.
Dominic's school training together
Pupil v’s
resident
competitions
Parkdale Care
Home with some
of Auchterarder
school pupils.
Ochil Nursing Home and
Oakbank Primary School DVD
Any Questions/Comments