Injury Matters runs two Move Improve Remove campaigns each year through the Stay On Your Feet® program. Each campaign focuses on modifiable risk factors to prevent falls and promotes the Move Your Body, Improve Your Health and Remove Hazards messages for older adults who live in the community, their families and carers, and professionals.
Each campaign consists of a variety of activities throughout Western Australia, including training for health and community workers, local community events for older adults, resources, community grants, and advertising on television and social media.
The Move Your Body campaign launches on 1st March!
Move Your Body is one part of the Move Improve Remove messaging used to encourage older adults to stay safe, independent, and prevent falls.
The Move Your Body campaign focuses on the importance of moving your body to improve balance and posture, strengthen muscles and bones, and improve overall fitness and general well-being.
The Move Your Body campaign will run from 1 March to 31 May 2024. Campaign information and activities are available on the Stay On Your Feet® website by signing up to the Falls Prevention eNews for health and community workers or the News and Views eNews for older adults.
Move Your Body campaign key messages
- Improving your strength and balance are some of the best ways to reduce your risk
of having a fall - Good balance and strength are important for healthy ageing.
- Strong legs and good balance are needed to do your everyday activities.
- Falls are preventable
Move Your Body campaign calls to action
- Do strength and balance exercises every other day to reduce your risk of having a
fall. - Make exercises more challenging as your balance improves.
- Do strength exercises you can adapt to make harder as you get stronger.
- Choose activities you enjoy to build your balance and strengthen your legs.
- Speak to a health or fitness professional about strength and balance
exercises that are right for you.
Get involved in the Move Your Body campaign
Spread the word with social media posts and eSignatures
Strengthen Your Legs social media post
Making yourself stronger, keeps you on your feet longer. Do strength and balance exercises every other day to reduce your risk of having a fall. Make exercises more challenging as your balance improves. The free Stay On Your Feet® eDirectory makes it easy to find a local exercise class near you.
Visit www.injurymatters.org.au/programs/stay-on-your-feet/information-for-over-60s/strengthen-your-legs/ or call 1300 30 35 40.
Build Your Balance social media post
Strong legs and good balance are needed to do your everyday activities, such as getting out of a chair, walking up and down stairs, pushing the shopping trolley, or even waltzing around the kitchen. Staying physically active with activities like Tai Chi helps you keep your muscles and bones strong to stay healthy and independent. Falls are preventable – Move Your Body to help
prevent falls.
Visit www.injurymatters.org.au/programs/stay-on-your-feet/information-for-over-60s/build-your-balance/ or call 1300 30 35 40.
Activities for good balance and strength social media post
Good balance and strength are important for healthy ageing. It’s important to choose activities you enjoy to regularly build your balance and strengthen your legs, like golf, lawn bowls or even swimming. Speak to a health or fitness professional about strength and balance exercises that may suit you. To access activities near you visit our eDirectory www.injurymatters.org.au/resources/edirectory/filter/all/strength-and-balance-exercise-programs/all/ or call 1300 30 35 40.
Build Your Balance eSignature
Stengthen Your Legs eSiganture
Attend Move Your Body training and events for health professionals
Stay On Your Feet® provides training and networking events that aim to increase your capacity to work in falls prevention. Keep an eye on our events page for Move Your Body trainings throughout the campaign period, which will be regularly updated on our website and shared via social media.
Book an On-Demand training
Injury Matters offers a range of Stay On Your Feet® presentations and training to community, health, fitness, or allied health professionals working with older adults that our trained staff will come out and deliver at your workplace.
- Active Balance for Falls Prevention
- Applying the Otago Falls Prevention Program in Practice
- Falls Prevention Training for Support Workers
Host a Stay On Your Feet® presentation in your community
Injury Matters offers free Stay On Your Feet® presentations for community groups. Delivered by peer educators who are trained to deliver falls prevention messaging using adult learning techniques to engage older adults, these 45-minute presentations take the participants through simple steps that they can use to prevent slips, trips, and falls.
Have us attend your community event
Peer educators and staff at Injury Matters are available to attend community events such as expos, fairs and open days. We can hold short presentations and host display tables across Perth and with enough notice, in regional locations too.
Call us on 1300 30 35 40 or email [email protected] to discuss your upcoming events.
Complete the Stay On Your Feet® eLearning modules
Injury Matters has developed two online learning modules to support exercise and activity coordinators in delivering falls prevention strategies with older adults living in the community.
Module One
Introduction to Falls Prevention provides background knowledge of falls, age-related changes and how these can impact on older adults’ function, mobility and falls risk.
Module Two
Exercise Strategies and Screening for Falls Prevention focuses on the implementation of evidence-based falls prevention exercise strategies for older adults.
Order FREE Move Your Body resources
Move Your Body videos
A variety of Stay On Your Feet® videos are available for you to share with your clients, community members, family and friends. Watch, share or add these videos to your displays or presentations.
- Strengthen Your Legs with Julie
- Active Balance Case Study with Lesley
- Falls Prevention Case Study with Florian
- Build Your Balance
- Dive Into Swimming
- Dare to Dance
- Keep Active with Tennis
- Be Active with Bowls
- Get Swinging with Golf
Sign up for the Falls Prevention eNewsletter
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