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Summary
Summary
The second edition of FallProof! continues to be the only text to address the multiple dimensions that contribute to balance and mobility. By exploring the reasons underlying falls, readers gain the knowledge to offer more comprehensive assessment and programming. This research-based approach is field tested and has shown considerable success in a range of instructional settings, including community-based and residential care environments.
The FallProof! program is customizable for individual clients, with exercise progressions for early, middle, and late class modules. In addition, it offers the following benefits:
* Flexibility. Program participants can engage in group activities that take into account their individual abilities so that the program is not too easy or too difficult for them.
* Guidance. Safe and easy ways of presenting each of the program's exercise components are illustrated, addressing issues ranging from safety concerns to the best ways to offer feedback to participants.
* Supplemental materials. Reproducible health, assessment, and program-related questionnaires help instructors gather crucial information for effective programming.
* Results. The FallProof! program has been proven to reduce the risk of falling in participants who've completed one or more rotations of the program.
Now packaged with a DVD, this second edition makes the information in the text applicable to real situations. The bound-in DVD shows how to administer key screening and assessment tests, demonstrates selected exercise progressions for the major program modules, and features a sample FallProof! class session in action.
Author Notes
Debra J. Rose, PhD, is a professor in the division of kinesiology and health promotion and co-director of the Center for Successful Aging at California State University at Fullerton. She is also a professor in the physical therapy department at Chapman University at Orange, California. Her primary research focus is on the enhancement of mobility and the prevention of falls in later years.
Dr. Rose is nationally and internationally recognised for her work in fall risk reduction assessment and programming. Her research in fall risk reduction in the elderly has been published in numerous peer-reviewed publications, including the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology Report and the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity.
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 Understanding Balance and Mobility |
| Chapter 2 Why Do Many Older Adults Fall? |
| Chapter 3 Screening and Assessment |
| Chapter 4 Center-of-Gravity (COG) Control Training |
| Chapter 5 Multisensory Training |
| Chapter 6 Postural Strategy Training |
| Chapter 7 Gait Pattern Enhancement and Variation Training |
| Chapter 8 Strength and Endurance Training |
| Chapter 9 Flexibility Training |
| Chapter 10 Setting the Stage for Learning |
| Chapter 11 Program Planning and Class Management Techniques |
