Very excited to share our review on interventions based on BCTs to encourage PA or decrease sedentary behaviour in community-dwelling adults has been published at Journal of Aging and Physical Activity Read here: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/… Saima Ahmed Annemarie Money Lisa McGarrigle Chris Todd NIHR ARC Greater Manchester

Chris Todd welcomes everyone to EUFallsFestival from the organising committee.

Cochrane review of population based interventions to reduce falls and injurious falls podcast is now online at cochrane.org/podcasts/10.10…
Lisa McGarrigle NIHR ARC Greater Manchester Older People and Frailty | Policy Research Unit Healthy Ageing Research Group NMSW Research

🚨NEW #Cochranereview 🤔Looks at how effective population‐based approaches are in preventing falls or fall‐related injuries in older adults. #fallsprevention

Read the plain language summary 👉bit.ly/42m8FBI
Read the full text 👉 bit.ly/47R8NKE

Our Cochrane review on population-based interventions in falls prevention has been published Chris Todd Sharon R Lewis Healthy Ageing Research Group NMSW Research Key message: we are unsure whether population-based approaches reduce falls and fall‐related injuries. cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Evidence Synthesis for Older Adults. A themed collection published by Age and Ageing in conjunction with the @Gerisoc conference next week academic.oup.com/ageing/pages/e… #BGSconf OUP Medicine Dr Terry Quinn💙 Prof Susan Shenkin

More on our #AppReviewMethods work which aims to ensure that future app reviews are performed in a standardised & reliable manner! We hope this work will guide best practice and demystify the process 📱📃🤔 Dawn Dowding Gill Norman Amy Vercell Lisa McGarrigle Debra Jones

Should it be called 'fear of falling' or 'concerns about falling'? Do fears/concerns increase risk of falls, or can they be protective? How should we best measure them? Here, we (the World Falls Guidelines team) try to answer these questions and more.

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New #mHealth #ResearchMethods paper!! 📃Researchers have been reviewing existing apps... But there's no consistent method for this! We discuss methodological considerations & outline a 7-step #method , with the aim of systematising the #AppReview process 📱 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/6/e…

Just published: how to measure concerns-about-falling. Healthy Ageing Research Group NMSW Research

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Lovely way to end the week- presented our new #ResearchMethod on reviewing commercial health apps to the UoM Biology, Medicine and Health Systematic Reviews interest group (& a furry friend)! 😺 Thanks Gill Norman Chris Todd for having me 🤗 #AppReview #TECH NIHR ARC Greater Manchester Paper coming soon!

Well done Ya Shi for article on Non-pharmacological interventions for older adults with sarcopenia: a scoping review doi.org/10.1016/j.arch… Chris Todd Lisa McGarrigle

Good advice from Chris Todd about an enjoyable high impact academic career. Be yourself, be kind, find good collaborators, stick at it, focus but juggle too! Don't push square pegs into round holes. In short be more Chris! Great colleague/mentor😊

Ever wondered how to systematically review commercial health apps? 🤔 Wonder no more!😃 We introduce 7 steps to help you & propose the TECH framework for developing RQs & determing eligibility criteria. 🪜🤳 #ResearchMethods #AppReview #mhealth NIHR ARC Greater Manchester NMSW Research UoM Biology, Medicine and Health

New open-access study published in EuGMS - European Geriatric Medicine Society, with Kim Delbaere and Elmar Kal. Here, we investigate the factors that predict the development of activity restriction due to concerns about falling. 1/6
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Great to see these published including contributions from Chris Todd Lisa McGarrigle from Healthy Ageing Research Group #fallsprevention 👇

We're advertising 3 research posts in our NIHR ARC Greater Manchester Healthy Ageing theme.

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Come and join us and work on some exciting projects helping people to age well.

Fully funded PhD places in Healthy Ageing Research Application deadline extended to 15th June
Details: bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/research…

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