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 Improve Your Health campaign launches on 1st September!
Improve Your Health is one part of the Move, Improve, Remove messaging used to encourage older adults to stay active, independent, and prevent falls.
An individual’s diet, medication intake, and cognitive ability can influence their falls risk, and maintaining overall health and wellbeing is essential for healthy ageing. The Improve Your Health campaign encourages older adults to check their medicines, keep a healthy mind, and fuel their bodies with simple changes to prevent falls and support healthy ageing.
The Improve Your Health campaign will run from 1 September to 30 November 2024. Campaign information and activities are available on the Stay On Your Feet® website or by signing up to the Falls Prevention eNews for health and community workers, or the News and Views eNews for older adults
Improve Your Health campaign key messages
- Nutritious food fuels your body with the energy it needs to stay strong
and active. - Reducing your alcohol intake helps you to stay alert and maintain
coordination. - Managing your medicines is an important part of staying healthy and
independent. - Keeping a healthy mind helps you to stay alert and respond to hazards.
- Falls are preventable.
Improve Your Health campaign calls to action
- Eat regular meals from a variety of food groups and limit alcohol consumption.
- Have your medicines reviewed every year and ask your GP or Pharmacist to explain the side effects.
- Challenge your mind often by trying a new activity or hobby.
Get involved in the Improve Your Health campaign
Spread the word with social media posts and eSignatures
Improve Your Health social media post
Falls are preventable at any age with simple steps taken every day. Things like our diet, medications and alertness can impact our risk of having a tumble. By choosing colourful ingredients, staying
mentally active and managing your medicines – you can stay independent for longer!
Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au to learn
how you can Improve Your Health
Keep A Healthy mind social media post
Keeping an active mind helps you to stay alert and respond to hazards that could trip you up. There are many simple and enjoyable activities you can do to keep a healthy mind, such as doing puzzles, home repairs, playing with grandkids, volunteering, or joining a social club.
Stay independent by finding an activity you
love. Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au for more!
Fuel Your Body social media post
A balanced diet and plenty of water will keep you on your feet and independent. Fuel your body with a range of colourful ingredients every day to stay strong and active.
Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au for more healthy tips!
Keep A Healthy Mind eSignature
Check Your Medicines eSignature
Fuel Your Body eSignature
Attend Improve Your Health 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 Improve Your Health 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
- Implementing the Lifestyles Integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) Program
to help prevent falls - 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 Improve Your Health resources
Improve Your Health 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.
These videos include:
- Checking Your Medicines to Prevent Falls
- Improve Your Health | Move Improve
Remove | Stay On Your Feet® - Check Your Medicines with Nancy
Sign up for the Falls Prevention eNewsletter
Stay up to date with falls prevention activities around the state, new resources, events, trainings and opportunities every month.
Follow us on social media
Support the Improve Your Health campaign. Follow Stay On Your Feet® on Facebook, or Injury Matters on LinkedIn for the latest campaign updates and share with your networks.
