TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Older adult perceptions of participation in group- and home-based falls prevention exercise
JO  - Journal of aging and physical activity
A1  - Robins, Lauren M.
A1  - Hill, Keith D.
A1  - Day, Lesley
A1  - Clemson, Lindy
A1  - Clemson, Caroline
A1  - Finch, Caroline
A1  - Haines, Terry
SP  - 350
EP  - 362
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper describes why older adults begin, continue and discontinue group- and home-based falls prevention exercise and benefits and barriers to participation. Telephone surveys were used to collect data for 394 respondents. Most respondents reported not participating in group- (66%) or home-based (78%) falls prevention exercise recently. Reasons for starting group-based falls prevention exercise include health benefits (23-39%), health professional recommendation (13-19%) and social interaction (4-16%). They discontinued because the program finished (44%) or due to poor health (20%). Commonly reported benefits were social interaction (41-67%) and health (15-31%). Disliking groups was the main barrier (2-14%). Home-based falls prevention exercise was started for rehabilitation (46-63%) or upon health professional recommendation (22-48%) and stopped due to recovery (30%). Improvement in health (18-46%) was the main benefit. These findings could assist health professionals in prescribing group-based falls prevention exercise by considering characteristics of older adults who perceive social interaction to be beneficial.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1063-8652
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2015-0133
ID  - ref1
ER  -