Where possible CBE should be used as a starting point to progress to standing programmes.
Instead comments centred on the need to consider appropriate progression to more challenging and dynamic standing programmes to maximise health benefits.
It is acknowledged that health professionals and instructors influence the attitudes and beliefs of older people to exercise [ 22] and there is evidence to suggest that instructors have different attitudes depending on the setting they work and whether they predominantly deliver seated or standing programmes [ 23].
The Standing Tall programme incorporates evidence-based exercises to prevent falls and behavioural techniques to enhance long-term exercise adherence, using a person-centred approach while embracing new and emerging technologies.
Experts predominantly working in the healthcare sector stressed the importance of progression for all users of CBE – whether it is to standing exercise programmes or a progressively challenging seated programme.
In July 1995, they voted to end the long-standing programme of giving preferences to blacks and other minorities (and to women) who wished to enrol in the state's sprawling university system, which covers nine campuses.
For example, based on a long-standing programme of NEXUS research on families and tobacco use, NEXUS pilot-tested, produced, and disseminated a resource to help co-habiting couples reduce or stop smoking in conjunction with government health agencies, local addictions research centres, pregnancy outreach programmes, and other organisations.
No-strings cash handouts are catching on quickly in Africa: 37 countries had them in 2013, up from 21 just three years earlier.Many long-standing programmes are, like India's, plagued with waste and corruption.
Conditional cash transfers gained popularity in South America where long-standing programmes have demonstrated their success through significant improvements in access to education, food security, child health and growth [ 2- 6].
The unique combinations of intra-centre skills and expertise at NEXUS undoubtedly enabled the expansion of lone-grant projects into long-standing programmes of research and the rapid mobilisation of centre personnel to develop new investigations in response to critical emergent research areas, and to respond to targeted or catalyst research funding opportunities.
