Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise
© 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc. 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 i...
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| description | © 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc. 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-43662017-09-13T14:47:34Z Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise Robins, L. Hill, Keith Day, L. Clemson, L. Finch, C. Haines, T. © 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc. 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. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4366 10.1123/japa.2015-0133 Human Kinetics Inc restricted |
| spellingShingle | Robins, L. Hill, Keith Day, L. Clemson, L. Finch, C. Haines, T. Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
| title | Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
| title_full | Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
| title_fullStr | Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
| title_short | Older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
| title_sort | older adult perceptions of participation in group-and home-based falls prevention exercise |
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