Working papers - BHF National Centre - physical activity + health

WORKING PAPER 4
Community and locality based programmes – recommendations for practice
Introduction
This working paper highlights one area drawn from the Guidelines on Promoting
Physical Activity with Older People drafted by the British Heart Foundation National
Centre for Physical Activity and Health.
The guidelines were drawn from recent published reviews of effectiveness of physical activity interventions
together with other published articles and guidelines in addition to learning from current professional
experiences (eg, the Local Exercise Action Pilot programmes (DOH 2006)).
In summarising the learning from these sources of evidence, the guidance highlights recommendations
and components of good practice that can be used to planning interventions at three levels:
• Population wide interventions, eg, environmental and policy interventions, campaigning and promotion.
Click here to go to Working paper 3 – Population wide interventions.
• Community/locality based interventions, eg, facility-based programmes, area-based physical activity
projects and activity/participation events.
• One-to-one interventions, eg, lifestyle counselling and advice.
Click here to go to Working paper 5 – One-to-one interventions.
In addition, the guidelines offer an outline of best practice in:
• Physical activity and exercise programme planning eg, for those leading and instructing groups involved
in a range of activities eg, walking, tai chi, music and movement classes and chair based exercise.
Click here to go to Working paper 9 – Effective programming.
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