With the next Stay On Your Feet® Improve Your Health campaign launching in March, Injury Matters congratulates the successful Improve Your Health grant recipients who have commenced planning their community-based falls prevention grant programs.
Improve Your Health is one part of the Move Improve Remove messaging that encourages older adults to stay active, independent, and prevent falls. Improve Your Health looks at simple changes for preventing falls, focusing on nutrition, cognition and medication management.
Umbrella Multicultural Community Care Services
Umbrella Multicultural Community Care Services will host a series of twelve interactive Improve Your Health workshops for older adults from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The program will aim to reduce falls risk by promoting healthy eating, medication safety, and cognitive health. Activities include:
- nutrition & healthy eating workshop led by a nutritionist a including hands on cooking cooking class.
- medication safety workshop led by a pharmacist.
- mindfulness, cognitive health and movement sessions.
Workshops will be delivered in multiple languages with bilingual staff support, translated resources, and interpreting assistance to ensure accessibility and engagement.
City of Albany
The City of Albany will deliver an Improve Your Health falls prevention program, bringing together local partners including WA Country Health Service, Albany Community Care, Age Well Albany, and the Albany Over 50s Group to offer a diverse program of activities. The program will address all three key calls to action of Check Your Medicines, Fuel Your Body, and Keep a Healthy Mind through activities such as:
- nutrition workshops and cooking classes led by a nutritionist
- falls prevention and strength training sessions led by Allied Health team
- medication management workshops led by a geriatrician
- social exercise and activity sessions (dancing, drumming, bridge, archery)
Community Vision
Community Vision will deliver Steady Steps: Eat Well, Move Well, Stay Steady, a five-week program designed to reduce falls risk among older adults through education, engagement, and intergenerational connection.
The program focuses on the three Improve Your Health campaign risk factors: medication safety, nutrition, and cognitive health. Targeting isolated older adults, people living with dementia, Aboriginal, LGBTIQA+ communities, and family carers, program activities include:
- pharmacist-led medication safety workshop
- nutrition education and interactive cooking sessions led by a nutritionist and chef
- physiotherapist-led strength and balance exercises
- intergenerational playgroup for mental and social wellbeing.
WA Country Health Service Midwest
WA Country Health Service Midwest will deliver Food for Muscle and Mind, an initiative designed to improve nutrition knowledge and cooking confidence among older adults. Integrated into the existing eight-week strength & balance exercise program, the project will feature two themed weeks with four interactive sessions that combine dietitian-led education with hands-on cooking activities.
Nutrition workshops will include:
- education on hydration, alcohol alternatives and how good nutrition supports mood and cognitive function
- learning about the importance of protein, calcium, and Vitamin D for muscle and bone health.
- preparation of simple, high-protein snacks and meals
- take-home recipe cards and resources.
Are you interested in being involved in one of these programs?
Get in touch with our grants coordinator via [email protected] and we’ll connect you.