MOVING MORE OFTEN IN KIRKLEES

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MOVING MORE OFTEN IN KIRKLEES

• Juliet Jackson
• Operations Manager Physical Activity
  Development
• Kirklees Council Culture Leisure Services

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WHAT IS MOVING MORE OFTEN (MMO)?

• Training programme to promote physical activity,
  independence and well being, for (frailer) older
  adults
• Aimed at health and social care workers and
  volunteers
• Currently consists of 5 modules, ie
• Core Module
• Games People Play
• Walk With Me
• On My Own
• Out and About

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ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION WHEN DEVELOPING MMO

• Partnerships
• Aims/objectives
• Funding
• Appropriate leaders, settings and activity
  provision

• Marketing
• Supplementary materials
• Support mechanisms
• Evaluation
• Sustainability

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PARTNERSHIPS

• Kirklees Council - Culture Leisure Services
• - Adult Services
• NHS Kirklees
• Age Concern
• Salvation Army
• Active Older People Network

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APPROPRIATE LEADERS, SETTINGS AND ACTIVITY
PROVISION

• Leaders - willingness to undertake training
• - good communication/people skills
• - interest and enthusiasm
• Settings - appropriate and accessible,
• eg daycare, sheltered housing
• Activities - fun and varied
• - suitable music

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MARKETING

• Establish WHO to target
• Use of appropriate imagery
• Targeting daycare
• Recruitment of ambassadors eg daycare managers

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SUPPORT MECHANISMS

• Managers support for participating staff
• Active Older People Network
• Equipment Lending Scheme
• Resources developed
• Physical Activity Development Officers

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And finally

• A quote from a (frailer) older person in Kirklees
  who has
• obviously benefited from the MMO programme
• Id be lost without all the activities. They
  give you something to look forward to because its
  not just the exercise you benefit from, mentally
  and physically, but just getting out and meeting
  people, and it also encourages people of my age,
  and often younger, to try something new

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• For more information contact
• juliet.jackson_at_kirklees.gov.uk