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

Toolkit Phase 2 - Materials

These materials are resources to help you to develop a plan of action to implement effective falls prevention strategies. These materials support the activities of Phase 2 of the Toolkit.

The planning process

• Goals, objectives and strategies
• Decision making
  Making decisions about what to do to prevent falls and promote healthy active ageing is not always easy. Decision making needs to be based on the benefits, capacity, potential risk, acceptability to the target group, costs and supporting evidence.

Working with others

• Key stakeholders
  Key stakeholders are people who can give you information about what is already happening in the community, and who can be involved and support your work.
• Roles and responsibilities
  As there will usually be a wide range of stakeholders, it is useful to define the roles and responsibilities different key stakeholders will take in reducing falls and promoting healthy active ageing.
• Good working relationships
  A successful project/program is based on developing and maintaining good working relationships. This includes communicating well with others and problem solving.
• Partnerships
  Partnerships are defined and explored, with a focus on how partnerships contribute to falls prevention program and how to encourage long-term and productive partnerships.
• Community planning meetings
  Community planning meetings are used to engage stakeholders, and include introductory meetings, 'getting started' meetings, planning and progress meetings.

What works for falls?

This section outlines what works to prevent falls from happening, according to scientific evidence.

• What works in the community?
  This section discusses a community or population based approach to falls prevention, including addressing multiple risk factors, a life course approach and a healthy active ageing approach.
• WHO Safe Communities
  This section discusses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Safe Communities model and how it can be applied to falls prevention and healthy active ageing.
• Falls risk assessment
  This section discusses how conducting an individual falls risk assessment and implementing appropriate interventions can assist in preventing or minimising falls.
• Falls and physical activity
  This section discusses the types of physical activity programs that are proven to help prevent or minimise falls.
• Falls and vision
• Falls and medication
• Falls and nutrition

Involving others in your project/program

• Reach and marketing
  A successful project/program needs to reach and engage the target group. This section talks about the marketing methods used to do this.
• Social marketing plan
  If using a social marketing approach for your project/program, you will need to plan this thoroughly and may need to engage an expert.
• Community engagement
  Community engagement is a concept that is becoming increasingly popular in government, corporate and non-government circles. Community engagement is an important part of any falls prevention project/program.

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