LIMITED TIME DISCOUNT – NOW $99 (WAS $165)
This instructor training workshop will equip allied health professionals with the knowledge and skills to safely and effectively deliver the evidence-based fall prevention LiFE program to older people in their homes. Learn how to identify opportunities to integrate balance and strength activities into daily routines, conduct ability assessments, activity planning, upgrading and monitoring, and develop the skills that enable positive habitual change in your older clients.
The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is a way of reducing the risk of falls by integrating balance and strength activities into regular daily tasks. Unloading the dishwasher becomes an opportunity to improve strength. Brushing your teeth becomes an opportunity to improve balance. In the LiFE program, every daily task becomes an opportunity to improve balance and strength. This is a different approach to a traditional program where you would be required to complete a series of exercises a certain number of times a day for a set number of days each week.
This instructor training workshop will equip allied health professionals with the knowledge and skills to safely and effectively deliver the LiFE program with older people in their homes for fall prevention, improved functional capacity and independence. Topics to be covered include physiological principles of balance and functional integrated exercise concepts, LiFE programming including the LiFE conceptual model, daily balance and strength activity integration, activity planning and recording, and positive habit formation. The LiFE Program is an evidence-based program which has been found to be effective in reducing falls and improved functional capacity in older community-residing people with a history of a fall in the past year (Clemson, 2012). Positive outcomes of the LiFE program have since been replicated globally and is considered a valuable option for engaging older people with healthy ageing activities in their homes.
The LiFE program is for anyone who is at risk of falling. Participants must be able to comprehend the program and not have a cognitive impairment. They must be able to safely perform LiFE activities unsupervised. They should not have a neurological condition that affects their balance.
Occupational therapists, physiotherapists and exercise physiologists who are interested in falls, falls prevention, aged care, allied health care, functional capacity, behaviour change, habit change, home based exercise, balance, strength, incidental exercise.
A downloadable certificate is available at course completion. This is designed to support Continuing Professional Development requirements (e.g. CPD (Australia, Canada, Britain), PDU (US)). There is also a checklist, if needed, to demonstrate completed activities throughout the modules.
It is strongly recommended that before teaching the program, therapists and trainers implement the LiFE program, or significant sections of it into their own routines.
Throughout the course there are learning activities that are designed to help you learn by reflecting on key points. There are also several learning activities that we have marked as ‘essential’. We strongly recommend you complete these which includes practicing training a colleague or family member a balance and a strength LiFE activity. Module 10 has some case study examples and we strongly advise you to have a go at these. They were taken from participants Wendy and Barry in our LiFE research. Finally there is a quick multiple choice quiz that needs to be completed to gain your completion certificate.
Currently discounted to $99, was $165.00 (GST inclusive). This price includes delivery of a hardcopy of the participant manual.
The LiFE assessment, LiFE Action Plan and other training tools that you will need when training your clients are also accessible from the resources page, and can be downloaded free of charge.
Your clients can purchase the Participant Manual from Sydney University Press or from Amazon.com.au. You may also purchase multiple copies at reduced cost by contacting Sydney University Press. Each participant will need their own manual.
Lindy is a recognised international leader in enablement and environmental approaches to community-based falls prevention. She has led the development of three novel and successful fall prevention programs, all implemented world-wide. She has conducted nationally-funded trials to test the efficacy of interventions, including Stepping On, a group-based fall prevention program and the Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program, and has developed assessments and interventions related to environment and behavioural fall risk. Her current work is conducting research to investigate ways to translate evidence into practice and collaborative projects to explore interventions for high-risk groups. Her work has influenced both policy and practice, and her publications are highlighted in Cochrane Reviews, the Australian and US national fall prevention practice guidelines and in the US compendium of effective community-based falls prevention interventions. Her research expertise includes multi-methodology inquiries, intervention trials and implementation science.
Professor Maria A. Fiatarone Singh is a geriatrician whose research, clinical, and teaching career has focused on the integration of medicine, exercise physiology, and nutrition as a means to improve health status and quality of life across the lifespan. She has held the inaugural John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professorship, Sydney Medical School, at the University of Sydney since 1999. Prof Fiatarone Singh has designed and carried out many clinical trials and longitudinal studies in Australia and the USA, including large multi-centre trials of exercise and chronic disease prevention and treatment. She has had continuous substantial NIH funding from 1989-2004, and NH&MRC funding since 1999 when she came to Australia. She has published extensively in the area of health implications of exercise and nutrition, having authored/edited one book, authored over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Jo Munro is a physiotherapist with a Master’s in health science education. Jo participated in the development of LiFE and delivered interventions in the pilot and main trial. She also contributed her expertise to the LiFE training manual and workshops. Jo has a background in rheumatology education and is a qualified and practicing hand therapist.
4 hrs
$99.00 (GST inclusive). A hardcopy of the participant manual is included.
eLearning
Continuing professional development (CPD & PDU)