Table 1.
AMOB/VLL topics, objectives, and resources by session
| Session | Topics | Objectives | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the program | • Identify helpful and unhelpful fall beliefs | • Group meeting schedule |
| • Fall-related attitudes survey | |||
| • Video: fear of falling | |||
| 2 | Exploring thoughts and concerns about falling | • Recognize core beliefs about falls | • Evaluating thoughts about falling |
| • Challenge unhelpful thoughts through the use of cognitive restructuring | • Challenge your concerns about falling | ||
| 3 | Introduction to exercise and fall prevention | • Understand the role of exercise in fall prevention | • Age page: exercise: getting fit for life |
| • Identify barriers to exercise and exercises suited to preventing falls | • AMOB/VLL exercises | ||
| • Participate in the AMOB/VLL exercises | • Video: exercise it’s never too late | ||
| 4 | Assertiveness and fall prevention | • Identify physical risk factors for falls | • AMOB/VLL exercises |
| • Practice exercises that address physical risk factors | • Age page: preventing falls and fractures | ||
| • Relevance of assertive behavior and fall prevention | • Prevention of falls: some practical suggestions | ||
| • Resources for fall prevention | |||
| 5 | Managing concerns about falling | • Learn to use personal action planners | • AMOB/VLL exercises |
| • Recognize effect of thoughts about falls on feelings and action | • Personal action planner for exercise | ||
| • Improving your balance | |||
| • No fall-ty habits | |||
| 6 | Recognizing fall-ty habits | • Evaluate fall risk-taking behaviors | • AMOB/VLL exercises |
| • Prioritize risk-taking behaviors to be addressed | • Recognizing and changing fall-ty habits | ||
| • Identify thoughts that help to change behavior | • Home safety check list | ||
| • Learn ways to shift from negative to positive or helpful thinking | |||
| 7 | Recognizing fall hazards in the home and community | • Recognize potential fall hazards in home and community | • AMOB/VLL exercises |
| • Identify strategies to reduce physical hazards in the home and community | • Personal action planner for an environmental hazard | ||
| • Recognize relationship between assertive behavior and fall prevention | • Solutions to fall hazards in the home | ||
| • Getting up and down safely | |||
| 8 | Practicing no fall-ty habits and overview | • Recognize the benefits of a positive attitude toward fall prevention | • Personal action planner for behavior |
| All | Intervention formats | Video presentation, brain storming, guest therapist, individual survey, exercise routine, small group work, group discussion, problem solving, personal experience, group survey, role playing | |