With the next Stay On Your Feet® Move Your Body campaign launching in September 2025, Injury Matters congratulates the successful grant recipients who have commenced planning their community-based falls prevention grant programs.
Move Your Body is one part of the Move Improve Remove messaging that encourages older adults to stay active and prevent falls. The Move Your Body campaign encourages older adults to improve balance, mobility and strength to prevent falls and promote healthy ageing.
Shire of Toodyay
The Shire of Toodyay will deliver a 12-week community-based falls prevention program promoting balance, mobility and strength exercises. The program includes:
- One weekly indoor Bocce session to encourage gentle physical activity and social connection.
- One weekly balance and strength session led by a qualified fitness instructor.
- Participants will receive take-home exercise plans
Shire of Narrogin
The Shire of Narrogin will deliver a six-week Ballroom Fit program to enhance balance, mobility and strength in older adults. Each weekly session will be held at the Narrogin Regional Leisure Centre and includes:
- A 30-minute health education session delivered by a qualified health professional, covering topics such as falls prevention, strengthening lower limbs, and home-based balance exercises.
- A 60-minute Ballroom Fit class led by award-winning disability dance professional Darryl Davenport, focusing on balance, coordination, and lower body strength through inclusive, low impact dance movements.
Cunderdin Community Resource Centre
The Cunderdin Community Resource Centre will deliver a six-week falls prevention program for older adults living in the community and surrounding communities. The program will include:
- Strength and balance sessions led by a qualified physiotherapist, focusing on low-impact exercises to improve posture, flexibility, core strength, and stability.
- The final two weeks will include 90-minute hands-on nutrition workshops. Participants will be guided in preparing simple, affordable meals that support bone and muscle health. A local nurse will assist in developing the meal plans to ensure they are balanced, nutritious, and tailored to older adults’ needs.
Astley Care
Astley Care will deliver a 12-week balance, mobility and strength falls prevention program in the City of Gosnells. A qualified Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist will facilitate each session including:
- Tailored group exercises based on the evidence-based Otago Exercise Program, incorporating functional movements such as walking on varied surfaces, reaching, and picking up items from the floor.
- Delivered by the nursing team, sessions will include interactive education covering home safety, energy conservation, how to get up off the floor safely, medication side effects and foot care.
- Participants will receive resources and a take-home exercise program to support ongoing activity beyond the sessions.
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.