Supporting people's wellbeing

Here are some resources and ideas, many of them developed with care professionals and people experiencing care.

Movement Sticks

Use 5-10 lolly sticks with a different movement or fun based ideas written on each one. Obviously adapt the ideas to suit the person’s ability and Interests. Why not involve carers and family too – moving together is more fun. Download ideas for your sticks here.

Top Tips

Integrating moving more conversations about moving more into every part of what you do can have a significant impact. These handy printable top tips are a wonderful way to get started and cover topics such as:

  • Recruitment and training

  • Day to day movement

  • Personal (care) plans

  • Good conversations

  • Celebrating success

  • Being connected

  • Staff wellbeing environment

Download the CAPA top tips guide

Super Six

The Super Six are some of the key exercises that help improve balance – a major part in keeping steady and reducing the risk of falling. They can be done safely at home and don’t need any equipment, other than something secure to hold on to, like a chair pushed against a wall. Watch the great video of the Super 6 exercises from The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Make Every Move Count

This pocket guide helps staff understand that movement is about the small, simple things we can add into daily life that make a big difference. 

Moving More Often

People living in their own homes have found this pocket guide useful. It helps someone to identify what is important to them, nudges folk to move more often every day, promotes control and independence and complements people’s desire to keep living at home.

My moving more improvement record

People experiencing care use this to track their improvement over time. People have found this personal record motivating to use themselves, and a useful way to involve family and friends.

Make Every Moment Count

The resource highlights how making the most of every moment can make a real difference to a person’s quality of life in simple but very meaningful ways.

Information for relatives 

This document encourages relatives and friends to support their older relative to move more often for positive health and wellbeing. Some services have found it useful to include this information in care plans, introductory packs or newsletters.

'Care...about physical activity'

This booklet outlines the original CAPA resource developed for care homes. 

A report on three years of the programme 

Independent research commissioned by the Care Inspectorate investigated psychological and physiological impacts of moving more often. The evaluation found that older people involved in the programme significantly improved their mobility, flexibility and ability to move independently. They people felt healthier and demonstrated improved health-related quality of life, doing more of what mattered to them.

Care professionals’ confidence to enable older people to move more increased.  Greater numbers of older people felt that they belonged to their communities, fewer felt lonely.

Older people had a reduced likelihood of falls, rate of falls per person was reduced and there were fewer contacts with medical services as a result of falls. Read this report to find out more about the evaluation, along with stories and ideas.

Supporting Older People to Live Active Healthy Lives free online course.  

Brief 45 min modules helping care staff, older people and families understand the value of moving more. This FREE interesting and engaging resource helps older people to remain as independent as possible by supporting people to move more often. Learn more about the topic and find new ideas to try. The course is hosted on TURAS Learn. It is particularly helpful for people who live with or work with frailer older people. 

This learning programme makes use of resources developed as part of our Care about Physical Activity (CAPA) programme. This online learning programme was developed by Professor Dawn Skelton at Glasgow Caledonian University for CAPA.  If you complete all 6 modules, you can print a certificate which is useful for CPD.