From Fall Prevention Month to Finding Balance, programs and awareness initiatives are offered across Canada, both regionally and nationally, to prevent serious injuries from falls.
Resources
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Healthy Living Workshop (Active Aging Canada)
Active Aging Canada’s Healthy Living Workshop resources include:
Your Personal Passport to Healthy Living
Tool Kit for Healthy Living Workshops for Older Adults
Guidebook for Community Leaders
Virtual Facilitation Training Slide Deck (English only)
24-Hour Movement Guidelines and Workshop Posters
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Age-friendly communities – Public Health Agency of Canada
This website from the Public Health Agency of Canada describes the Age-Friendly Communities initiative, explains what makes a community age-friendly and provides information about Canadian communities that are striving to support the health and well-being of older people.
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Fall Prevention Month
With a vision that all Canadians play a role in preventing falls, Fall Prevention Month’s mission is to equip health and service providers, business, government and academics with the tools to raise awareness and engage their communities in preventing falls and fall-related injuries.
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Falls Prevention Clinic – Vancouver Coastal Health
Enhancing mobility while preventing falls and fractures through evidence-based practice and research.
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Homecare Safety Virtual Quality Improvement Collaboratives
A cutting-edge approach to falls management in the home setting, launched by the The Canadian Home Care Association, together with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement. Through shared learning, teams from a different jurisdictions and provider types work with each other and recognized safety experts to rapidly test and implement changes that lead to sustained improvement.
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Loop, Fall Prevention Community of Practice
Loop is the online communication platform that brings together frontline workers, practitioners, caregivers, researchers and policy planners working for the health and independence of the public through fall prevention. Loop is a place to problem-solve together and discuss how to implement evidence-informed and promising practices.
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Seniors Maintaining Active Roles Together (SMART)
Community-based, volunteer-led exercise programs for seniors that accommodate all levels of ability.
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Together In Movement and Exercise (TIME)
TIME is a community-based program welcoming people with balance and mobility challenges to exercise. It focuses on functional mobility exercises, done mostly in standing, with hand supports available to assist with balance. The program is designed by physiotherapists at Toronto Rehab, and led by TIME-trained fitness instructors in community centres across the country.
Finding Balance
Finding Balance is a public awareness campaign designed to increase awareness of slips, trips, and falls among older adults. The campaign provides information for practitioners as well as resources they can use for older adults. Finding Balance was developed by the Injury Prevention Centre at the University of Alberta. Unique resources have been developed by many provinces specific to their population.
Stay On Your Feet
Stay on Your Feet (SOYF) is a fall prevention strategy used across Northeastern Ontario communities to help older adults stay active, independent, and on their feet. SOYF offers a variety of fall prevention resources, free exercise classes in the community, and opportunities for networking, and training.