Gentle Chair Based Exercise Leader Training

A practical certified course that teaches you how to create and deliver a chair based exercise session for those in your care. The course teaches you which exercises are suitable for those with the chronic conditions listed below and how to practically work with older people. It isn’t always about the exercise! Learn how to motivate your service users to attend and enjoy the sessions.

If you don’t want to attend the course but still want information on chair based exercise consider buying the DVD which covers all the material in the course. Click here to purchase the DVD for £20 including postage (UK only). (Please note this DVD is not suitable to train your staff…..it is a reference guide only).

Insurance Is Available

If you want to work independently providing these sessions, one to one training and insurance are available

Aim

This course shows you how to create, adapt and deliver a safe chair-based exercise session for older people living in care settings.  The sessions throughout the day are very practical, simple to understand, and easy to apply on the care floor.  The course looks at physical changes as we age, health and safety considerations including risk assessment and different exercises for different chronic conditions.

Duration: 10am to 5pm

By the end of the course delegates will have the knowledge to understand:

1. The physical changes that happen as we age. The affect these have on people and the role of functional exercise in alleviating some of these affects.
2. The health and safety considerations required to keep the resident, exercise leader and organisation safe
3. A complete range of safe, easy exercises allowing you to create over 100 different exercise sessions for all abilities.
4. How to create your own safe programmes from scratch quickly
5. How to create and adapt exercise sessions for those with :

• Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Stroke, MS
• Heart conditions, COPD, Cancer, Arthritis
• Diabetes, Epilepsy, Hip and knee replacements
• Huntington’s disease, Mental health problems, Bed bound

Attendees

The course is designed for individuals who work or volunteer with older people in residential and nursing homes, sheltered housing and day centres.

Certification

A certificate is issued upon completion of the course.

Aim

This course shows you how to create, adapt and deliver a safe chair-based exercise session for older people living in care settings.  The sessions throughout the day are very practical, simple to understand, and easy to apply on the care floor.  The course looks at physical changes as we age, health and safety considerations including risk assessment and different exercises for different chronic conditions.

Duration

10am to 4pm

Objectives

By the end of the course delegates will have the knowledge to understand:

1. The physical changes that happen as we age. The affect these have on people and the role of functional exercise in alleviating some of these affects.
2. The health and safety considerations required to keep the resident, exercise leader and organisation safe
3. A complete range of safe, easy exercises allowing you to create over 100 different exercise sessions for all abilities.
4. How to create your own safe programmes from scratch quickly
5. How to create and adapt exercise sessions for those with:
   1. Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Stroke, MS
   2. Heart conditions, COPD, Cancer, Arthritis
   3. Diabetes, Epilepsy, Hip and knee replacements
   4. Huntington’s disease, Mental health problems, Bed bound

Attendees

The course is designed for individuals who work or volunteer with older people in residential and nursing homes, sheltered housing and day centres.

Certification

A certificate is issued upon completion of the course.​

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