Walking with Strength and Balance in healthcare settings
We support healthcare staff to deliver walking activities, combined with Strength and Balance, to residents, patients and clients in care settings.
We caught up with our artist in residence, Alec Finlay to find out more about his poem bird boxes for care homes and how they help us to notice and care for nature in the places we walk.
Our Senior Development Officer, Emma Anderson reflects on the conclusion of our Care About Walking project to support people living in care homes to stay active.
We have been awarded £7,000 to encourage care home staff and residents tackle climate change.
Go4Gold is a Perth and Kinross care home challenge to increase physical activity levels for all care home residents in a fun and meaningful way.
We have been awarded £50,000 to expand our award-winning Care About Walking project with care homes in Perth and Kinross.
Westhill Walking to Health group have received Dementia Friendly Walking status for their Wednesday morning one-hour Health Walk.
Our Care About Walking project, to support older residents in care settings to walk more, was nominated in the UK Coaching Awards, Coaching for an Active Life category.
Our Care About Walking project to improve the lives of older people has won the Coaching for an Active Life Category of sportscotland’s Coaches, Officials and Volunteer 2019 awards.
Our Dementia Friendly ‘Care about Walking’ resource pack has been delivering some impressive results for care home residents in Perth and Kinross.
National walking charity Paths for All has secured £60,000 to further develop its Dementia Friendly Walking project for two years.
We are working with care home residents and staff to develop indoor and outdoor walking activities.
A Dementia Friendly Health Walk has been set up by Get Walking Lanarkshire starting from Beechwood Care Home in Wishaw.