preventing falls in your communityKeeping Minnesotans Right Side Up
Evidence-based health promotion interventions have been proven to produce a desired health outcome in participants. There are several programs that have a strong science base and a successful track record of implementation in community organizations serving adults. View list of programs with a strong science base.
Learn the evidence-based healthy aging programs being implemented in Minnesota.
- Arthritis Self-Management
- Chronic Disease Self-Management
- Matter of Balance
- Arthritis Exercise Program (land)
- Arthritis Exercise Program (warm water)
- EnhanceFitness
Learn More
- Read the Chronic Disease Self Management Program implementation Manual at http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/
- Read Multi-factorial and Physical Activity Programs for Fall Prevention at http://www.stopfalls.org/grantees_info/files/Multi_factorial.pdf
- Read Preventing Falls: What Works A CDC Compendium of Effective Community-based Interventions from Around the World at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/PreventingFalls/
- Read Cochrane Review – Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community (pdf)
Use RE-AIM for Program Planning
RE-AIM is framework designed to inform program decision-making by focusing on five elements that are critically important for service providers and decision-makers to consider when selecting an evidence-based health promotion program, or when making choices among alternative programs.
RE-AIM is an acronym that consists of:
- Reach the target population
- Efficacy or effectiveness
- Adoption by target settings or institutions
- Implementation - consistency of delivery of intervention
- Maintenance of intervention effects in individuals and populations over time