Care about Physical Activity
Please find below a copy of the CAPA Programme Mid-Evaluation Report which mentions intergenerational projects being created in a few different authority areas. You can see from the report the positive impact that CAPA is having to people experiencing care.
Background
In 2016 the Care Inspectorate was commissioned by the Scottish Government to deliver the Care...About Physical Activity (CAPA) improvement programme which, through empowering care staff with the knowledge and skills to promote and increase the physical activity levels of those in their care, looks to improve the health and wellbeing, independence and overall
quality of life of people experiencing care across Scotland. The programme is currently being delivered across eight partnership areas across the country.
Conclusion
Over the course of the CAPA programme thus far, a variety of positive learnings, changes in perceptions and levels of self efficacy of staff, cultural changes in the environment of care homes, and physical and psychological changes of the people experiencing care have occurred.
With ongoing work to ensure the profile of movement is increased within all care environments, that staff are given the time to prioritise movement, and that staff and care management provide opportunities for people experiencing care to move more, these positive changes should continue. The continued training of staff, and on boarding of new staff, inspectors, and other
health professionals (GPs and physiologists) on the CAPA programme will continue to ensure that the message is promoted and that awareness and acceptance is increased within other care environments, and the families of those in care.
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Impacts on the Local Communities
- Spurred through awareness of the CAPA programme, intergenerational work has started taking place in a variety of care homes in partnership areas including East Ayrshire, Perth and Kinross and North Lanarkshire. A Tai Chi Pilot in a North Lanarkshire care home now host an intergenerational Tai Chi class where the elderly and young children take part in Tai Chi together. It also has started linking in community groups such as Sporting Memories, forming community ties and bringing community members together.
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Changes in care services
Other changes include the connections made between the care services and the local community, whereby these connections have and can help support social care professionals and people experiencing care to continue to be involved in local initiatives, have access to local spaces for movement opportunities, and stay up to date with innovative ways in which to encourage, enable and engage in movement. For example, the development of intergenerational projects across care services in East Ayrshire, Perth and Kinross and North Lanarkshire are providing people experiencing care in these areas with further opportunities to engage with their communities, and enhance their wellbeing and movement time. These will continue to develop across the partnership areas, and to create relationships between older adults and younger members of society in a mutually beneficial and sustainable way. CAPA managers will look to work with colleagues in Early Years and children and young people inspectors to develop a supportive resource aimed at promoting intergenerational practice.