Walking with Strength and Balance toolkit

This toolkit supports health and social care staff to develop and promote walking with Strength and Balance activities for older adults.

This toolkit supports you to develop, deliver and promote an inclusive and accessible test of change approach. It can be applied to a range of settings including care homes, hospitals, care-at-home services and sheltered housing. It has a particular focus on people living with dementia.

Download the PDF to access:

• Why walking with strength and balance is important for older adults.
• Resources to support opportunities for supervised physical activity.
• How to make a case for your project.
• How to plan your walking with strength and balance project.
• Examples and case studies from a range of healthcare settings.
• The benefit of internal and external partnerships to your programme.
• Information about funding.
• Reviewing your findings and evidencing impact.
• Sharing success and developing your project.

We updated our brand and name in June 2025 to Walking Scotland. We’re still working to update everything with our new branding. This means you might spot our previous, Paths for All, branding in places, and some links in downloads might not work as they should.

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Date published: February 2024

Format: PDF