Falls Prevention Exercise Leader

This course shows you how to create, adapt and deliver a safe falls prevention exercise session for older people living in care settings and community. The sessions throughout the day are very practical, simple to understand, and easy to apply on the care floor.

The course looks at physical changes as we age, health and safety considerations including risk assessment and different exercises for different chronic conditions and elderly fallers.  To lead the prevention of trips, slips and falls in a care setting.

Duration: 10am to 5pm

By the end of the course delegates will have the knowledge to understand:

1. The physical changes that happen as we age. The affect these have on people, their potential to fall and the role of functional exercise in alleviating some of these affects.
2. The health and safety considerations required to keep the resident, exercise leader and organisation safe.
3. A complete range of safe, easy exercises allowing you to create over 100 different exercise sessions for all abilities
4. How to delivery risk assess for and deliver postural stability exercises to a group of older people.
5. How to create and adapt falls prevention exercise sessions for those with : Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Stroke, MS
6. Heart conditions, COPD, Cancer, Arthritis
7. Diabetes, Epilepsy, Hip and knee replacements
8. Huntington’s disease, Mental health problems, Bed bound

Attendees

The course is designed for individuals who work or volunteer with older people in residential and nursing homes, sheltered housing and day centres.

Certification

A certificate is issued upon completion of the course.