Co-Creating Recommendations to Redesign and Promote Strength and Balance Service Provision

Calum F Leask, Nick Colledge, Robert M E Laventure, Deborah A McCann and Dawn A Skelton
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Calum F Leask: Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership, Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen AB10 1AB, UK
Nick Colledge: External Consultant, Robin Park Sports Centre, Loire Drive, Newtown, Wigan WN5 0UL, UK
Robert M E Laventure: Later Life Training, Silver Cottage, Main Street, Killin FK21 8UT, UK
Deborah A McCann: Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles, Robin Parks Sports Centre, Loire Drive, Newtown, Wigan WN5 0UL, UK
Dawn A Skelton: School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 17, 1-14

Abstract: Background: Awareness of physical activity guidelines are low, particularly the “forgotten guidelines” of strength and balance. Increasing awareness of guidelines, but also of appropriate local services that can be utilised, is an important step towards active ageing. Co-creation can inform tailored service provision to potentially increase uptake and adherence. The aim was to co-create recommendations to redesign and promote local leisure services, emphasising strength and balance activity provision. Method: Twenty-four ageing and older adults engaged in 10 co-creation workshops. Workshops consisted of interactive tasks, and fieldwork tasks were undertaken externally. Data were collected using field notes, worksheet tasks and facilitator reflections and were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Retention and adherence rates were 92% and 85%. Co-creators cited group cohesion, scientific input from experts and perceived knowledge development as enjoyable elements of the process. Four key themes emerged from analysis: (1) localised strategies for awareness raising, (2) recruitment of volunteer champions to increase uptake and maintenance, (3) accessibility of activities, including what they are and when they are, and (4) evaluation of impact. Conclusion: This has been the first study, to our knowledge, to utilise co-creation for informed leisure service provision improvement. Future work should aim to implement these recommendations to ascertain what impact these themes might make.

Keywords: Co-creation; physical activity; leisure services; service redesign; participatory; older adults; strength; balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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