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Step safely four week group program

Developed by: Boroondara Primary Care Partnership

Format: Program manual and PowerPoint presentation

This program, developed by the Boroondara Primary Care Partnership, is a detailed education program. There are four sessions, each developed to run for 2 ½ hours, to groups of up to 20 people. Sessions are conducted by multi-disciplinary staff, and target seniors (and their families/carers) who have a moderate to high risk of falls.

Sessions include:

1. General health and medication;
2. Home safety and public safety;
3. Exercise and fitness, and feet and footwear; and
4. Vision and healthy diet.

The manual includes a program outline, sample letters, handouts that can be modified to suit the various disciplines presenting), evaluation forms and a participant falls risk check list. The program also includes discipline specific PowerPoint presentations.

Note: The vision PowerPoint presentation includes extensive notes. These notes are only available with the PowerPoint version of the presentation, not the PDF version.

Availability:

Manual

Step safely four week group manual (673kb, pdf)

Step safely four week group manual

• Cover and Acknowledgements (493kb, MS Word)

• Contents, Introdution, The Step Safely Program at a Glance, Preparation, Session 1 (628kb, MS Word)

• Session 2 - 4, Referral Forms and Handouts (184kb, MS Word)

• Leg strengthening and balance exercises (584kb, MS Word)

• Leg strengthening and balance exercises - continued (6138kb, MS Word)

• Leg strengthening and balance exercises - continued (545kb, MS Word)

• Leg strengthening and balance exercises - Balance Exercises (935kb, MS Word)

• Eating for Strength and Energy (148kb, MS Word)

PowerPoint presentation

General health and medication (192kb, pdf)

General health and medication (392kb, MS Powerpoint)

Home safety (540kb, pdf)

Home safety (473kb, MS Powerpoint)

Public safety (1,218kb, pdf)

Public safety (453kb, MS Powerpoint)

Exercise and fitness (213kb, pdf)

Exercise and fitness (293kb, MS Powerpoint)

Feet and footwear (206kb, pdf)

Feet and footwear (288kb, MS Powerpoint)

Vision (278kb, pdf)

Vision (959kb, MS Powerpoint)

Healthy diet (992kb, pdf)

Healthy diet (851kb MS Powerpoint)

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Falls and older people: Stepping into falls management

Developed by: Goulburn Valley Health Service

Format: PowerPoint presentation

This is a detailed PowerPoint presentation (56 information slides) covering a range of aspects of falls prevention: the magnitude of the problem, consequences, costs, who is at risk, the specific risk factors and strategies to address each risk factor, what to do if you do fall and information on falls and balance clinics.

This resource has been included in its complete format. However, given the amount of information it is advisable that it is presented over a number of sessions, or condensed to meet specific target group needs.

Note: also see Senior's booklet: Stepping into falls prevention

Availability:

Falls and older people: Stepping into falls management (1,172kb, pdf)

Falls and older people: Stepping into falls management (1,047kb, MS Powerpoint)

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Mabel has had a fall - and she's not happy

Developed by: Barwon Health Primary Care Forum - SAIL Falls Prevention Program

Format: Interactive performance based education session - program outline.

An innovative approach to raising awareness of falls to seniors living independently in their own home. This interactive, light-hearted performance is based around a character named Mabel who has had a problem with her balance. Through her story the audience learns how Mabel can reduce her risk of falling and continue living safely at home. The session takes about half an hour depending on audience participation. The suggested script and format can be adapted to suit the target audience.

Availability:

Mabel has had a fall - and she's not happy! (114kb, pdf)

Mabel has had a fall - and she's not happy! (200kb, MS Word)

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