RESOURCES
Fall Prevention
Hawaii Fall Prevention Resource Guide
NCOA (National Council on Aging): 6 Steps to Prevent a Fall
San Diego Fall Prevention Brochure
Falls Can Kill You. Here's How to Minimize the Risks - NYTimes
Leading Causes of Senior Deaths
Causes of Falls in Older Adults
15 Surprising Things That Can Increase Your Risk of Falling
Exercises
Refresher Course: Adaptive Skills and Balance This is balance training you can practice at home.
Dehydration in Older Adults: Risks, Signs and Prevention Your risk of dehydration and your chances of experiencing serious side effects increases with age.
Fall Prevention Awareness - Balance - Control Drill
Fall Prevention: Balance and Strength Exercises for Older Adults Exercises recommended by John Hopkins to strengthen the body and improve balance.
Goodbye Tough Workouts Japanese researchers have developed a science-backed strength-training method that helps maintain fitness without strain. It's a simple form of eccentric training—just five counts over three seconds.
Kupuna Aikido Safe Falling for Senior Citizens Video of KuA’s classes and students.
Mayo Clinic’s Exercises to hone your balance skills
Otago Exercise Program To Prevent Falls in Older Adults (Revised) A New Zealand evidence based program to improve balance among seniors.
Take the balance challenge to help you live longer BBC. Dr Michael Mosley: Take the balance challenge to help you live longer
There are a lot of excellent balance and exercise videos on YouTube. You can do a search under AARP exercises for seniors. An excellent video is by the Neurolastic Institute called “The BEST single exercise to improve BALANCE for senior clients"
For all balance exercises, be sure to have a chair or counter to help maintain your balance.
Safe Falling
The Right Way to Fall - NYTimes
The Art of Falling Safely - AARP
Kupuna Aikido Safe Falling Videos
Kupuna Aikido Safe Falling Zoom Presentation This video gives more information about Fall Prevention and our safe falling principles. Anyone who follows just one or two of our principles can reduce the severity of fall injury. For seniors who want to practice techniques based on your safe falling principles, we offer our 8 week class to practice and develop muscle memory.