Inspirational evening at the Physical Activity for Heath Research Launch

I attended the launch of the new Physical Activity for Health Research Centre at The University of Edinburgh on the 29th January 2013.  It was great to hear Professor Nanette Mutrie’s vision for the future of the group.  Professor Fiona Bull gave an excellent account of the global situation focusing on the 7 investments that work for physical activity:

1. Whole of School Programmes

2. Transport

3. Urban Design

4. Engagement with Individuals with Non-Communicable Disease 

5. Public Education 

6. Community Wide Integrative Interventions 

7. Sport

Investment Document: http://www.globalpa.org.uk/investments/

I was also very grateful to the team for giving me the opportunity to share my poster presentation: Amount of Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults

 

Mobex Fun

Mobex Manchester 19th & 20th January 2013.

Firstly, thank you to committee for putting together such a fab programme.  I had a great time in Manchester and met so many lovely people over the weekend.  There were many great presentations for across Europe on a range of issue relating to elderly mobility and exercise. I found it very useful to hear the presentations on engagement with physical activity and hope to transfer this to my own work.

I gave a presentation of my findings of my systematic review and was very grateful for all the questions and comments from the expert audience.

A busy month ahead….

A busy month of conferences and events in the age and ageing world.  I am looking forward to seeing what everyone’s been up to research wise, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones!  In addition,  I will be presenting my work on amount and prevalence of sedentary behaviour in older adults at the following events:

MobEx 16, Manchester: Oral Presentation ”Amount and Prevalence of Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults”

Physical Activity for Health Research Centre Launch, Edinburgh: Poster Presentation “Amount of Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults”

NIHR Age & Ageing Specialty Group in Scotland, Stirling: Poster Presentation “Prevalence of Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults”

I will give a wee overview of the interesting topics I come across as soon as I can after the events.

 

 

 

Well Done Dawn!

Well done to my Director of Studies, Professor Dawn Skelton - 4th most cited article of all time in Age & Ageing Journal!… And top of the chart for its time period! The article is on the issue of strength, power and related functional ability of healthy people aged 65–89years.  If you fancy a read of the article it can be found at:

http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/5/371.short

Happy New Year

All the very best for 2013!

Well done to David MacLean & All the Presentation Winners at Be Active 2012!

http://sma.org.au/2012/11/conference-award-winners/

TV & Diabetes Risk

More work using AusDiab data:

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/3049416

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Sitting, Sleeping & Light Intensity PA

Very interesting work from Dr Bauman on sleep and sitting time at ICPAPH. Travis Saunders has produced a great blog including an interview with Dr Bauman, great for those of us that couldn’t make it to the conference

The work is based on a large scale x-sectional study (NHANES).  Therefore, the study is on relationship rather than causation.  I don’t have the full text, but assume we probably have less sleep than we should at a population level . As far as I know, sleep-wise < 6 hrs detrimental to health, as is > 8/9 hrs, so tweeks to this will maybe have a better outcomes in terms of relationship to health conditions.  Especially, if its coming from our masses of sedentary time.  Dr Bauman also shows positive relationship with light PA.  Can’t wait to read the full paper! 

Here is the blog by Travis Saunders:

http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/2012/11/02/swap-sitting-for-sleep-to-improve-your-health-icpaph12-beactive2012/

A new paper from Prof. Neville Owen – Sedentary Behaviour Measurement Issues for Consideration

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110918