Later Life Training
Later Life Training is a registered England Company founded in 2003. It aims to provide specialist, evidence based, and effective exercise training for health and exercise professionals working with older adults, frail older people and stroke survivors.
Later Life Training has 5 Directors, 3 of which set up the Company in 2003, Dr Susie Dinan-Young, Mr Robert Laventure and Prof Dawn Skelton. They bring expertise in research, teaching and physical education. Bob Laventure and Dawn Skelton have previously been involved in training individuals to work in co-creation to develop leisure services to be more appropriate for older adults. In Health CASCADE, Dawn Skelton is the main contributor.
The team at Later Life Training
Dawn Skelton
Dawn Skelton is an exercise physiologist with a scientific research background. She is currently Professor of Ageing and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. In 2015 received an Honorary Doctorate for Umea University in Sweden for her work with exercise and older people and in 2016 was honoured by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy with an Hon FCSP. She was also awarded a Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - FRCP Edin. She specialises in research and health promotion concerning exercise and older people.
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