This involved accompanying the nurse on her twice weekly pulmonary rehabilitation programme based in a local leisure centre.
Additionally, this innovative aspect was even further enhanced through basing this programme within a leisure centre in what can be considered as a health-orientated environment.
I think for older patients it's too daunting for them to go alone to the leisure centre.
The team met fortnightly over a three-month period prior to the launch to visit the venue at the leisure centre and to plan appropriate workshops.
In a few cases, the presence of a dominant and sometimes relatively new leisure centre was clearly a debilitating in-uence.
In the sitting rooms of the ' elderly persons homes ', people were very much more frail than those attending the leisure centre.
This would be useful in determining whether they continue with this activity 'outside' of the leisure centre scheme based activity, longer term.
The nurse went and spoke with the manager of the leisure centre who then came and gave the patients a tour of the leisure centre.
