TY - JOUR
T1 - Exercise for falls prevention : decision-making among Australian-born and Italian-born older people
AU - Liamputtong, Pranee
AU - Lam, Julie
AU - Hill, Keith
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In this article, we examine factors contributing to decision-making in regards to participation and adherence to exercise to reduce falls by older people with recent falls history. Nineteen participants (9 Australian-born and 10 Italian-born; median age 78Â years) who had ≥1 fall in the past 12Â months and completed a community based physiotherapy program were recruited. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. The findings show that family, client-clinician relationship and personal experience affected decision-making and exercise participation. The findings revealed that a number of factors influenced older people’s decision and uptake of falls prevention exercise, including personal goals, recommendations from health care providers, and life experiences. There were some differences between the Italian-born and the Australian-born participants, including that most Australian-born participants adhere to exercise programs in order to avoid requiring nursing home care, whereas Italian-born individuals did not wish to be dependent on their children. An understanding of personal motivating and de-motivating factors for exercise for falls prevention are important for health and social care professionals to consider in engaging some groups of older people.
AB - In this article, we examine factors contributing to decision-making in regards to participation and adherence to exercise to reduce falls by older people with recent falls history. Nineteen participants (9 Australian-born and 10 Italian-born; median age 78Â years) who had ≥1 fall in the past 12Â months and completed a community based physiotherapy program were recruited. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. The findings show that family, client-clinician relationship and personal experience affected decision-making and exercise participation. The findings revealed that a number of factors influenced older people’s decision and uptake of falls prevention exercise, including personal goals, recommendations from health care providers, and life experiences. There were some differences between the Italian-born and the Australian-born participants, including that most Australian-born participants adhere to exercise programs in order to avoid requiring nursing home care, whereas Italian-born individuals did not wish to be dependent on their children. An understanding of personal motivating and de-motivating factors for exercise for falls prevention are important for health and social care professionals to consider in engaging some groups of older people.
KW - decision making
KW - exercise
KW - older people
KW - qualitative research
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:50840
U2 - 10.1080/01924788.2017.1398036
DO - 10.1080/01924788.2017.1398036
M3 - Article
SN - 0192-4788
VL - 42
SP - 261
EP - 277
JO - Activities, Adaptation and Aging
JF - Activities, Adaptation and Aging
IS - 4
ER -