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The creative thinking and planning process has been completed in Phase 2: Plan.
During Phase 2, a written plan of action that clearly identifies what needs to be achieved, who is responsible, how, where and when the action will occur should have been completed. The types of plans that could have been prepared include:
Phase 3 puts the planning work into action and ensures the project/program is delivered properly [90].
This phase of implementation is essential to achieving the goal and objectives of your project/program. The impact and outcome of your project/program depends on effective implementation.
Each community is unique and there is no one way to implement strategies. Using a trial and learning approach is an optimal means of implementation.
Often, research identifies what to do but not how to do it. To test if the recommended strategy for falls prevention and healthy active ageing works in your local area and with the selected target group, conduct a small-scale trial of the implementation.
What works
Are we testing before we act?
Drawing upon injury prevention theory and practice, the implementation of falls prevention and healthy active ageing should use a collaborative, systematic, multi-strategic and multifactorial approach across the health continuum.
falls prevention theory
Implementing the Stay on Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project
Health continuum
To assist with implementation, consider and monitor the opportunities and barriers that have the potential to impact positively or negatively on your project/program.
Opportunities and barriers worksheet
To support and facilitate implementation, ensure there is ongoing communication about the project/program with the community and key stakeholders.
Communicating
Key stakeholders
To ensure effective implementation of falls prevention and promotion of healthy active ageing, answer the following questions:
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