Exercise for Falls Prevention: Assessment and Implementation provides an overview of exercise programming that can help prevent older adults from falling. The DVD offers detailed information on the reasons for falls in older adults, as well as shares insights from a community-based research program that has enabled over 100 adults reduce their risk of falls. In addition, the DVD reviews assessment measures and program design techniques for falls prevention.
Among the topics covered:
• The older adult continuum
• Factors affecting falls
• Our falls defense mechanisms . . . that begin to malfunction with age!
• Assessment #1: functional reach test
• Assessment #2: timed up-and-go test
• Assessment #3: chair stand test
• Constructing an exercise program
Among the topics covered:
• The older adult continuum
• Factors affecting falls
• Our falls defense mechanisms . . . that begin to malfunction with age!
• Assessment #1: functional reach test
• Assessment #2: timed up-and-go test
• Assessment #3: chair stand test
• Constructing an exercise program
