Views and experiences of visually impaired older people and exercise instructors about the Falls Management Exercise programme: a qualitative study.

Conclusions: Visually impaired older people have similar barriers and facilitators to group-based falls prevention sessions as older people without visual impairment, but seem to have more difficulties in motivation to exercise at home. Both participants and instructors felt the main facilitator to adherence to group exercise sessions was the social time.Implications for rehabilitationVisually impaired older people have similar barriers and facilitators to group-based falls prevention sessions as older people without visual impairment, but seem to have more difficulties in motivation to exercise at home.Key recommended adaptations for falls prevention interventions in visually impaired older people include offering individually-tailored home exercise materials, stratifying groups into level of ability and involving social time.The social time after the exercise sessions was key in programme adherence. PMID: 31875460 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research