About the campaign
The Stay On Your Feet® Improve Your Health campaign will run from 1st March to 31st May 2026.
Improve Your Health is one part of the Move Improve Remove messaging used to encourage older adults to stay active, independent, and prevent falls.
The Improve Your Health campaign focuses on the importance of managing medications, keeping a healthy mind, and fueling the body to help prevent falls in older Western Australians.
Target Audience
The campaign is aimed at older adults living independently in the community.
Key Messages
- Fuelling your body with nutritious food and water gives it the energy to stay 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.
- Keeping your bladder and bowel healthy can help prevent incontinence.
- Falls are preventable.
Calls to action
- Eat regular meals from a variety of food groups, stay hydrated 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.
- Have your hearing checked every year and ask your audiologist to explain the results.
- Speak to your GP if you notice any changes to your bowel and bladder health.
- Contact Stay On Your Feet® for a free Improve Your Health information pack with tips and tools to prevent falls.
Falls in Western Australia
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Injury Matters: Sweeney, R. Meade R. (2025). 2025 Western Australian Falls Report
Where you can see and hear us across WA
Keep an eye and ear out for the Improve Your Health campaign key messages and calls to action across various media channels from March to May.
What is the Improve Your Health Toolkit?
The Improve Your Health Toolkit has everything you need to get involved and help raise awareness of falls prevention strategies among older adults in the community. Share the Improve Your Health key messages and calls to action with ready-made social, digital and print media materials and more!
Toolkit Contents
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Share the campaign
Start a conversation through your social media channels. Share the Improve Your Health Toolkit and materials with your networks and communities. You can tag us using the handles below and include the hashtags #ImproveYourHealth and #FallsArePreventable.
@stayonyourfeet
@injurymatters
Campaign Materials
Here are some creative ways to share the Improve Your Health key messages and calls to action through various channels.
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Keep A Healthy Mind
| Keeping your brain active a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. A healthy mind helps you to stay alert and respond to hazards. Challenge your mind with activities you enjoy, learn something new, or spend time with the grandkids. For more information, visit stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
Fuel Your Body
| Improving your health a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. Fuelling your body with nutritious food and water gives it the energy to stay active. Eat regular meals from a variety of food groups, stay hydrated and limit alcohol consumption to prevent falls. For more information visit stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
Check Your Medicines
| Improving your health a little every day goes a long way in preventing a fall. Managing your medicines is an important part of staying healthy and independent. Have your medicines checked every year by your GP or Pharmacist to help you stay active and alert. For more information visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au. |
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| Check Your Medicines |
| Managing your medicines is an important part of staying healthy, independent and preventing falls. Medications can have side effects, such as feeling unsteady, blurred vision, dizziness, or memory problems. These side effects can increase the risk of falls, especially when combined with other medications, vitamins, supplements, or alcohol. Here are some tips for managing your medications safely to prevent falls: 1. Keep an up-to-date list of your medicines. Note the use-by date and the reason you are taking them. 2. If you take sleeping tablets for longer than two weeks, please ask your GP about a gradual reduction plan. 3. Do not share medicines with others. Medicines are prescribed for you only, and mixing medicines can increase side effects. 4. Ask your pharmacist to organise your medicines into a dosage tool, such as a Webster Pack, so you know which medications you need to take and when. 5. Pay attention to how your body and mind feel. If you notice any changes, such as feeling dizzy, drowsy, depressed, or in pain, please speak to your GP. To help prevent falls, have your medicines reviewed every year and ask your GP or pharmacist to explain the side effects. Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au to learn more about how to prevent slips, trips and falls. |
| Keep a Healthy Mind |
| Did you know that your brain plays a key role in preventing falls? Your brain controls every step you take, from planning your movements to reacting to unexpected obstacles, like a loose rug or stepping over a puddle. Keeping a healthy mind helps you stay alert and react to hazards. Here are some tips to help you keep a healthy and active mind: – Do puzzles or games like crosswords, sudoku, chess, or Mahjong. – Spend time doing activities you enjoy, such as cooking, reading, knitting, woodwork, drawing, and gardening – Learn something new, like how to play a musical instrument, a language, a recipe or a hobby. – Activities like tai chi, dancing, or swimming that challenge your coordination and memory. – Stay connected and join a local club, attend community events, or participate in group exercise classes. – Aim for 7-9 hours of quality sleep each night. Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au to learn more about how to prevent slips, trips and falls. |
| Fuel Your Body |
| Eating a variety of nutritious foods regularly helps keep your bones and muscles strong to prevent falls. It also helps give you energy to stay active and keep doing the things you enjoy. Fuel your body by eating regular meals from a variety of the five food groups, staying hydrated and limiting alcohol consumption. What key nutrients do you need to prevent falls? – Protein is needed for muscle and bone health. Sources of protein include beef, lamb, chicken, fish, milk, eggs, cheese, yoghurt, soy, tofu, nuts, and legumes. – Calcium is needed for strong bones. Sources of calcium include milk products, leafy green vegetables, soy, tofu, fish (particularly canned fish like sardines and salmon), nuts, and seeds, especially almonds. – Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium. Sources of vitamin d include natural sunlight, fatty fish such as tuna, salmon and mackerel, fish liver oil, and some dairy products. – Vegetables that are most beneficial for muscles and bones include onion, garlic, leek, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and green leafy varieties. Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au to learn more about how to prevent slips, trips and falls. |
Resources
Stay On Your Feet® provide free resources for older adults. These resources can also support health and community workers when providing falls prevention education to older adults in the community. Resources are available to download or free to order in Western Australia.
View resources
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Videos
Share Stay On Your Feet® videos with community members or clients. Showcase the videos in your waiting room, library, community centre or share them on social media.
Improve Your Health TV Advertisement
Check Your Medicines with Peter
Check Your Medicines with Nancy
Recreational falls prevention activities playlist
Engaging with the media
Use the quotes below to engage with the media and raise awareness of Improve Your Health key messages and calls to action. The quotes can support your communications, promote your falls prevention activities in your local media or advocate for falls prevention and healthy ageing initiatives in your community.
Quotes attributed to Roisin Sweeney, General Manager for Injury Prevention at Injury Matters.
- “1 in 3 people over the age of 65 have a fall each year, with some resulting in serious injury and hospitalisation, but falls are preventable.”
- “By improving your health, you can reduce your risk of having a fall.”
- “Your needs for nutrition, medication, and brain activity change with age. It’s important to eat a nutritious diet, know your medications and side effects, and keep a healthy mind to stay alert.”
- “Improving your health is a great way to stay independent and prevent falls.”
- “The Improve Your Health campaign encourages older adults to eat regular meals from a variety of food groups, have their medications reviewed by a pharmacist or GP each year, and to challenge their mind often with activities they enjoy.”
- “Injury Matters are providing free resources, information, and support for older adults in WA to help them stay on their feet® at www.stayonyourfeet.com.au or call 1300 30 35 40 for a free information pack.”
- “Eating a healthy and nutritious foods can help you reduce your risk of having a fall.”
- “Good nutrition is vital for healthy ageing and falls prevention. Older adults are encouraged to eat a balanced diet that includes a variety of food groups, enough water, and limited alcohol.”
- “Try incorporating foods rich in calcium and vitamin D, such as leafy green vegetables, dairy, and fish into your diet every day to help keep your bones strong.
- “Two-thirds of Australians aged over 75 years consume five or more medications every day. “
- “It’s normal for our bodies to require more medication as we age, however the side effects and interactions between medications can increase the risk of having a fall.”
- “By having your medicines reviewed every year, you can reduce your risk of having a fall. Speak to your GP or pharmacist about having a medicine review.”
- “Keeping an active brain is important for older adults to support their cognitive health, allowing them to respond to obstacles in their environments, control their movement, and stay alert to reduce the risk of falls.”
- “Keep your brain active to improve your reaction time, stay alert help prevent falls.”
- “Playing games with your grandkids or joining social groups are fun ways to keep your brain active and alert.”
- “Try doing something daily that challenges your brain like reading, a puzzle, a DIY project or learning something new. ”
- “The Stay On Your Feet® free online eDirectory can connect you with local interest or exercise groups to meet new people and try something new. Visit www.stayonyourfeet.com.au for more information.”
Attend webinars and promote community events
Stay On Your Feet® provides training, webinars, and networking events to increase the capacity of the falls prevention workforce. Keep an eye on our events page for training and webinar sessions throughout the campaign period.
You can also encourage older adults to attend local community health events, where they can chat with the Injury Matters team about Stay On Your Feet® and falls prevention. You can find these on the upcoming events calendar below.
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.
Applying the Otago Falls Prevention Program in Practice
The Applying the Otago Falls Prevention Program in Practice training is a half-day workshop for exercise-based falls prevention, based on the international Otago Exercise Program principles.
Active Balance for Falls Prevention
A half-day workshop on the principles of exercise-based falls prevention. Explore the knowledge and skills required for health and fitness professionals to incorporate balance and strength falls prevention interventions into practice.
Implementing the Lifestyle Integrated Functional Exercise (LIFE) Program to help prevent falls
A half-day workshop for health professionals to reduce the risk of falls and improve capacity for functional everyday activity, based on the LiFE program principles.
Falls Prevention training for Support Workers
An introductory workshop for falls prevention and explores the knowledge and skills required to identify potential risks of falls in older adult clients and report falls risk following organisational procedures.
Online learning for health and community workers
Injury Matters has free online learning modules to support community, health, fitness, or allied health professionals to deliver falls prevention strategies with older adults living in the community.
You can complete the Stay On Your Feet® eLearning modules in your own time and at your own pace, or get your team together for a group learning session!
Online learning for older adults
Improve Your Health eLearning module
The Improve Your Health eLearning module for older adults helps improve awareness and knowledge of healthy ageing and falls prevention strategies.
Book a peer education session for your community
Injury Matters offers free 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-1 hour long presentations take the participants through simple steps that they can use to prevent slips, trips, and falls.
Organising a community event?
Peer educators and Injury Matters staff are available to attend community events such as expos, fairs, and open days. With enough notice and availability, we can deliver short presentations and host display tables across Perth and in regional locations. We can also promote your upcoming events on our website, eNews, and social media.
Reach out to the team and tell us about your healthy ageing events!
Call 1300 30 35 40
Email [email protected]
How to stay connected
eDirectory
Feel confident to refer older adults to other health professionals. You can also refer them to community organisations for specific information and suitable programs.
Falls Prevention eNews
Stay up to date with falls prevention activities around the state, new resources, events, trainings and opportunities every month.
Community Falls Network
The Community Falls Network brings together a variety of
health and community professionals to discuss key issues and share solutions in community falls prevention. The Network meet quarterly via video conference and in person.
Stay On Your Feet® news articles
- Brain Awareness Week: Keep Your Brain Active and HealthyBrain Awareness Week (March 16-22) reminds us that brain health matters at every age. Our brain controls everything we do, from thinking and movement to memory and emotions. Keeping our brains active a little every day can go a long way in preventing a fall. Like your muscles, your brain stays healthy when you keep it active. Our brain can still adapt and grow…
- Active Balance for Falls Prevention WorkshopLast week, Injury Matters was proud to partner with AUSactive to deliver the Active Balance for Falls Prevention workshop, an event that reached full capacity thanks to AUSactive’s generous support in promoting the opportunity to their members. The strong interest…
- Injury Matters launches the Improve Your Health 2026 campaignInjury Matters is launching Stay On Your Feet® Improve Your Health campaign from March-May 2026!
- Top tips for beating the heatExtreme heat can be dangerous, and this summer has already been long and very hot. Dehydration can cause dizziness, confusion, and poor balance, increasing the risk of falls.
- Meet the 2026 Improve Your Health Grant RecipientsWith the next Stay On Your Feet® Improve Your Health campaign launching in September, Injury Matters congratulates the successful Improve Your Health grant recipients who have commenced planning their community-based falls prevention grant programs.
