I have been asked for more information for this event by several people on
this mailbase. Here is a bit more information and if anyone would like and
application form, please let me know your details and I will be happy to
send one out to you.
'Exercise and Sport: The Pros and Cons for Health',
Thursday 15th June at the Chelsea Village Conference Centre, Chelsea
Football Club, Stanford Bridge, Fulham Road, London.
This Conference is a joint event the RCGP are running with the BMJ. Our
lead doctor for the event is Professor Domhnall MacAuley who is the Chairman
of the RCGP Sports and Exercise Medicine Working Party and the Editor of the
BMJ's British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The conference will take the advise that physical activity is good for you a
step forward, by reviewing the most effective ways of promoting exercise, by
addressing the difficulties of getting people active, and the needs of
specific groups including the elderly and those with diabetes. The
conference seeks to answer the most difficult questions about how to best
get the message across, how much exercise to recommend, and how to address
the risks and hazards of exercise.
The meeting is aimed at the practitioners, the general practitioner who
advises patients in the surgery, the practice nurse who runs health
promotion clinics, the exercise counsellor at the leisure centre, the health
promotion officer in the local council, those in occupational health, the
private sector and in the leisure industry. As a multidisciplinary meeting,
it will help build links between professionals working across the spectrum
of health and exercise and seeks to answer the most difficult questions
about how to best get the message across, how much exercise to recommend,
and how to address the risks and hazards of exercise.
I hope this is helpful and I look forward to receiving your response.
Best wishes
Jennifer Goulding
RCGP Courses & Conferences Organiser
-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Goulding
Sent: 30 March 2000 09:59
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Subject: RE: fitness, sport and the elderly
you may be interested in a conference the Royal College of General
Practitioners and the British Medical Journal are running on June 15th at
Chelsea Village conference centre. The event is entitled 'Exercise and
Sport - The Pros and Cons for Health' and will include a talk on Exercise
and the Elderly. If you would like further details, please email me your
correspondence address and will send you an application form.
-----Original Message-----
From: TONY BOVAIRD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 March 2000 22:20
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Subject: fitness, sport and the elderly
Apologies for cross-posting.
I'm involved in some work on how to encourage older people to
undertake fitness-raising activities and sport. I've found little
material on this from the 'usual suspects' e.g. Sport England, Age
Concern, etc.
I'd be grateful for two types of information:
A. Successful initiatives to raise the level of involvement of older
people in fitness-raising activities and sport (ideally, with
evaluations of how well they worked and why).
B Evidence as to which types of activity are useful and which are
likely to be harmful to key groups of older people (e.g. I have found
contradictory advice on whether older people with arthritis should
engage in any physical activity which might affect their joints).
All suggestions gratefully received.
Tony Bovaird
PSMRC
Aston Business School
Aston Triangle
BIRMINGHAM B4 7ET
Tel: 00 44 (0)121 359 3011
Fax: 00 44 (0)121 359 1148
Web site: http://psm.abs.aston.ac.uk/home.html
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