Falls injury in older people (Pilot phase study)

This project aims to pilot test the feasibility, acceptability and sustainability of a three month yoga program for falls prevention in older people.

Method

Purposive sampling of 50 elderly participants will be done. This pilot study will use an uncontrolled, simple, pre-post study and mixed methods to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability.

Status

Ethics approval obtained. The recruitment of study participants will commence in the third week of March, 2012.