- Title
- Older adult perceptions of participation in group- and home-based falls prevention exercise
- Creator
- Robins, Lauren; Hill, Kylie; Day, Lesley; Clemson, Lindy; Finch, Caroline; Haines, Terry
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/154528
- Identifier
- vital:11162
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1123/japa.2015-0133
- Identifier
- ISSN:1063-8652
- Abstract
- This paper describes why older adults begin, continue, and discontinue group-and home-based falls prevention exercise and benefits and barriers to participation. Telephone surveys were used to collect data for 394 respondents. Most respondents reported not participating in group-(66%) or home-based (78%) falls prevention exercise recently. Reasons for starting group-based falls prevention exercise include health benefits (23-39%), health professional recommendation (13-19%), and social interaction (4-16%). They discontinued because the program finished (44%) or due to poor health (20%). Commonly reported benefits were social interaction (41-67%) and health (15-31%). Disliking groups was the main barrier (2-14%). Home-based falls prevention exercise was started for rehabilitation (46-63%) or upon health professional recommendation (22-48%) and stopped due to recovery (30%). Improvement in health (18-46%) was the main benefit. These findings could assist health professionals in prescribing group-based falls prevention exercise by considering characteristics of older adults who perceive social interaction to be beneficial.
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
- Relation
- Journal of Aging and Physical Activity Vol. 24, no. 3 (2016), p. 350-362; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; Geriatrics; Aged; Physical activity; Beliefs; Socialization
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