Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Toolkit

• Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Home
• Toolkit
  • Model diagram
  • Model's explanation
• Background
• Phase 1 - Investigate
  • What is the problem?
  • What are the impacts of the problem?
  • Why does the problem occur?
  • Where does the problem occur?
  • When does the problem occur?
  • What is the current context?
  • What is already happening?
• Phase 1 - Materials
  • Collecting information
  • Fear of falling
  • Risk factors
  • Key documents
  • Community stocktake
• Phase 2 - Plan
  • What can be done?
  • What do we know about the target group?
  • Who can be involved?
  • How do we keep the work going?
  • How will we measure progress?
• Phase 2 - Materials
  • Key stakeholders
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Good working relationships
  • What works?
  • Decision making
  • Goals, objectives, strategies
  • Community planning meetings
  • Reach and marketing
  • Social marketing plan
  • Key messages
  • Community engagement
  • Partnerships
• Phase 3 - Implement
  • Are we testing before we act?
  • What can we achieve now and later?
  • Are there opportunities to explore?
  • How are we monitoring progress?
  • Are we talking with others about our work?
  • Are we measuring our efforts?
• Phase 3 - Materials
  • Communicating
  • Awareness raising
  • Communication plan
  • Community progress meetings
  • Ambassadors
  • Physical activity
  • Sports tours
  • Come and try days
  • Case studies
• Phase 4 - Review
  • Process evaluation
  • Impact evaulation
  • Outcome evaluation
  • Share and celebrate
  • What happens next?
• Phase 4 - Materials
  • Process evaluation tools
  • Impact evaluation tools
  • Outcome evaluation tools
• Acknowledgements

What is already happening?

To identify the current level of services, programs and facilities that address falls prevention and healthy active ageing, you can undertake a community stocktake or community mapping exercise. This will help identify:

• knowledge of falls and falls risk factors
• what is actually happening
• what can be enhanced
• any gaps that new services or programs could fill.

The Queensland Stay on Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project conducted a pre and post-stocktake of the community by mailing a self-complete survey with a reply paid envelope. The pre-stocktake was conducted before the project commenced in February/March 2002 to provide a baseline of information. The post-stocktake was conducted in February/March 2006 to provide comparative information for evaluation purposes.

What next?

All of the information you have collected in Phase 1 needs to be summarised concisely, avoiding jargon. This information is critical to inform the planning process of Phase 2.

The injury data, community perceptions and community stocktake results will provide sufficient information to guide decisions about effective actions to reduce falls and fall related injury and promote healthy active ageing [10].

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