S9-3 Keep up -groups support fall prevention
PURPOSE: In Finland one third of home dwelling older adults 70+ fall at least once a year. Falling causes injuries and suffering. The cost of one hip fracture is about 30 000 € on the first treatment year. Balance and functional training is effective in preventing falls. Half of hip fractures can be...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10493938 2023-10-09T21:53:07+02:00 S9-3 Keep up -groups support fall prevention Starck, Heli Säpyskä-Nordberg, Minna Hokkanen, Sari Viskari, Jaana Borodulin, Katja 2023-09-11 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10493938/ https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad133.045 en eng Oxford University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10493938/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad133.045 © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Eur J Public Health Symposia Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad133.045 2023-09-17T00:48:32Z PURPOSE: In Finland one third of home dwelling older adults 70+ fall at least once a year. Falling causes injuries and suffering. The cost of one hip fracture is about 30 000 € on the first treatment year. Balance and functional training is effective in preventing falls. Half of hip fractures can be prevented by exercising. PROJECT OR POLICY DESCRIPTION: Development: Age Institute is a partner in Age-friendly South Karelia project coordinated by Wellbeing Services County of South Karelia. The project acts through a network with municipalities, NGO’s, congregations, and older people councils. Preventing falls became an important goal of project since the number of hip fractures was increasing and higher than the average in Finland. Several actions were developed: educating professionals, giving information to older people, and improving exercise groups. IMPLEMENTATION: ‘Keep up’ exercise group for older adults with increased risk of falling was implemented in every municipality (9) of the county. The risk of falling was assessed using a screening questionnaire in health care centers or in events, where participants with high scores were guided to the groups. Municipal sport sector organized the strength and balance training group once a week. The participants were encouraged to do home exercise weekly. The groups also included discussion and tasks about falls prevention. Themes were e.g. nutrition, fear of falling, medication and safe environment. Age Institute made the material for the group. EVALUATION: SPPB test was made in the beginning and in the end of the 10 weeks training period. Majority of participants improved their physical performance. According to a questionnaire the participants perceived mostly good or strong benefits. Especially mood, strength, and knowledge of preventing falls improved. After the training period the participants were guided to continue exercising. DISSEMINATION: The municipalities continue to organize Keep up groups. The good practice will be disseminated to other municipalities ... Text karelia* PubMed Central (PMC) European Journal of Public Health 33 Supplement_1 |
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PURPOSE: In Finland one third of home dwelling older adults 70+ fall at least once a year. Falling causes injuries and suffering. The cost of one hip fracture is about 30 000 € on the first treatment year. Balance and functional training is effective in preventing falls. Half of hip fractures can be prevented by exercising. PROJECT OR POLICY DESCRIPTION: Development: Age Institute is a partner in Age-friendly South Karelia project coordinated by Wellbeing Services County of South Karelia. The project acts through a network with municipalities, NGO’s, congregations, and older people councils. Preventing falls became an important goal of project since the number of hip fractures was increasing and higher than the average in Finland. Several actions were developed: educating professionals, giving information to older people, and improving exercise groups. IMPLEMENTATION: ‘Keep up’ exercise group for older adults with increased risk of falling was implemented in every municipality (9) of the county. The risk of falling was assessed using a screening questionnaire in health care centers or in events, where participants with high scores were guided to the groups. Municipal sport sector organized the strength and balance training group once a week. The participants were encouraged to do home exercise weekly. The groups also included discussion and tasks about falls prevention. Themes were e.g. nutrition, fear of falling, medication and safe environment. Age Institute made the material for the group. EVALUATION: SPPB test was made in the beginning and in the end of the 10 weeks training period. Majority of participants improved their physical performance. According to a questionnaire the participants perceived mostly good or strong benefits. Especially mood, strength, and knowledge of preventing falls improved. After the training period the participants were guided to continue exercising. DISSEMINATION: The municipalities continue to organize Keep up groups. The good practice will be disseminated to other municipalities ... |
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