Considerations prior to any future implementation of the REACT exercise intervention
mobility disability
REACT provides local, regional and national service providers an effective (Being successfully delivered by “level 3” exercise practitioner’s enables care providers and policy makers a greater number of qualified exercise professionals (i.e., gym instructors and personal trainers) to recruit and manage exercise sessions within their region. This makes delivering such programmes more cost effective and sustainable compared to relying upon healthcare roles such as physiotherapists or clinical exercise physiologists. The practise of combining health economic evaluations alongside exercise interventions should be widely encouraged by the research community, policy makers and service providers. To our knowledge, REACT is the first exercise programme delivered alongside a health economic evaluation for older adults at risk of mobility disability. The cost of delivering the 12 month REACT programme was estimated to be £622 per participant (To facilitate additional strength adaptations over the longer-term and optimise adaptations in bone mineral density, access to provision or equipment that enables heavier load resistance training in accordance with NSCA recommendations (