Fall Prevention Education Co-Designed and Evaluated with Community-Dwelling Older People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers: A Feasibility Study

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Introduction
Community-dwelling older people living with dementia and associated cognitive impairment are at twice the risk of falling compared to those with normal cognition [1] due to reductions in postural stability, working memory, ability to concentrate, and executive functioning [2].Within a given year, 50%-80% of older people living with dementia experience a fall [3], of which over 50% lead to physical injuries [4] including fractured hips, head injuries [5], and unplanned admission to residential care [6].Te health problems and reduced function that result from injuries from falls can also cause stress and burden for caregivers, leading to ill health for them as well [7].Terefore, it is important that the person living with dementia (PLWD), supported by their caregiver, is enabled to maintain functional ability and safety to reduce their risk of falling for as long as possible.Tis could empower a sense of purpose and contribute to the older PLWD managing their safety in order to remain at home [8].
Recent world guidelines on falls prevention have highlighted that engaging older adult understanding about falls is imperative for the prevention of falls and falls injuries [9].Fall prevention education addresses this recommendation by raising older adults' awareness of falls risk factors and improving falls knowledge, facilitating early preventative action [10].A systematic review on the efectiveness of fall prevention education to lower falls risks among older people living in the community included six studies from USA, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia.Programs were mostly delivered in group settings and content commonalities included intrinsic (personal) and extrinsic (environmental) fall risk factors.Te review concluded that education programs improved falls awareness and knowledge and facilitated fall prevention behaviour change [11].Our prior research and others have highlighted that fall prevention education had some success in reducing falls in community and hospital populations [12,13], but the longer-term adoption of falls prevention strategies remains a challenge [14].It is known that involving community consumers of research in the research process improves their likelihood of participating in an intervention and facilitates research translation [15].We engaged a large cohort of community-dwelling older people in the design of a peer-led falls prevention education program using a novel world café forum-the frst for fall prevention education [16,17].Key fndings highlighted that older people desired fall prevention messages to be delivered with a positive tone with high levels of respect, empathy, and time to listen to queries [18].In the hospital setting, we conducted focus groups with patients to gain their perspective on tailored fall prevention education.Patients reported that our education program increased their knowledge and confdence to actively engage in fall prevention strategies, which signifcantly reduced falls [14,19].In residential care homes, we partnered with frail older people and their staf to identify gaps in fall prevention knowledge and preferences for fall prevention education.Findings included the need for positively framed fall prevention messages to promote safety and wellbeing and items to prompt strategy enactment [15].Tis body of work has coproduced tailored fall prevention education programs, incorporating a suite of multimedia resources for diferent populations of older people.
However, consumers of interventions, particularly those who are cognitively impaired, are infrequently consulted regarding the design and development of an intervention [20].Tis is problematic as communication difculties, including comprehension, associated with dementia make designing and delivering fall prevention education challenging.Memory impairment, even in the early stages [21], can also challenge the older person's ability to adopt noncued safety messages that reduce falls risk.It has been demonstrated that strategies and cues to improve communication and memory, including rhymes and graphics, can assist efective processing and recall of messages [22,23].Tus, providing cues and strategies face to face, in a structured, direct way may assist older PLWD to undertake benefcial falls prevention education.Most importantly, older PLWD and their caregivers have made it known that they want to contribute to the development of dementia-specifc education programs to ensure the education is appropriate [8,24].Hence, there is a demonstrated need to partner with older PLWD and their caregivers to codesign fall prevention education that is meaningful for them by adopting a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach.CBPR is recognised as a preferred collaborative approach, particularly with vulnerable groups, designed to ensure the community afected by the research have their voices heard and share and participate in all aspects of the research process [25,26].Co-designing programs with consumers is benefcial for ensuring that programs are contextually relevant, useful, and efective for consumers, and that their perspectives are prioritised [27].As older PLWD and their caregivers are our community consumers, they bring knowledge of the lived experience of the disease to the research co-design, ensuring the research meets the needs of their community [26,27].Tis could enable better engagement with education messages and enactments in daily life to reduce the risk of falling.
Terefore, the aim of this study was to partner with older PLWD and their caregivers to co-design a fall prevention education program and evaluate program feasibility in assisting engagement with and enactment of safety messages to reduce the risk of falling in their home environment.

Study Design.
A two-phase mixed method design using a CBPR approach was undertaken.Tis included pre-and post-program consumer engagement panels, surveys, and semi-structured interviews (see Figure 1) [28].Feasibility studies for early intervention development seek to answer the question "can it work?" by providing evidence on the criteria: adaptability, acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, integration, limited efcacy, and expansion as recommended by Bowen et al. [29].Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Western Australia Human Research Ethics Committee (2022/ET000027) and permission was obtained from the Bethanie group.All participants provided written informed consent.

Participants and
Setting.Tis study partnered with a large not-for-proft aged care organisation in Western Australia.Te organisation provides over 350 community home care packages (HCP) to support older people with diverse care needs, including dementia care, to live independently at home for as long as they are able.Tere are four levels of HCP that address low (level 1) to high (level 4) care needs, services can include personal care, nursing, therapy, meals, domestic assistance, and transport (myagedcare, n.d.).
A purposeful sample was drawn from the organisation's HCP clients recruited as dyads (older PLWD and their family caregivers).Eligibility criteria for HCP clients were as follows: aged 65 years and above, a diagnosis of dementia from a medical practitioner (as defned by the organisation's 2 Health & Social Care in the Community electronic medical record), not the subject of a guardianship order (this meant the older PLWD was considered able to make decisions about themselves and understand informed consent as judged by their family caregiver, medical practitioner, and professional HCP provider staf), able to communicate in English, vision sufcient to view program resources, ambulant with or without a walking aid, and receipt of a HCP (level 1-4) that included weekly therapy services.Tis meant the PLWD had received a physiotherapy assessment that included physical and functional measures to determine their falls risk factors and their ability to mobilise within their home environment in order to engage with the fall prevention program.Family caregivers' eligibility criteria included the ability to communicate in English and co-habitation with the home care recipient, meaning they had an enduring familial relationship with the PLWD and capacity to observe their cognition and function on a daily basis.Staf delivering HCP services were also invited to participate in the research co-design, for which the eligibility criteria included employment in delivering HCP services for older PLWD for three months or more and ability to communicate in English.Health & Social Care in the Community the study were then emailed a participant information statement and were followed up by a member of the research.Te lead researcher then visited the dyads in their home to fully explain and verbally discuss the study and answer all their queries.Te dyads were then asked to sign the consent forms, with the PLWD signing in the presence of their caregiver.

Intervention Co-Design
2.4.1.Phase One.Te research team, dyads, and home care staf (physiotherapists, therapy assistant, and support workers) participating in the consumer co-design panel met face to face at the organisation's central meeting room.Te panel was conducted according to a pre-prepared guide (see supplementary fle 1a).Review of the fall prevention education resources, informed by prior research [16,17,30], included safety messages portrayed in a screened video, paper brochures and questionnaires followed by a discussion of program delivery facilitated by the lead researcher.Iterative panel dialogue was undertaken in the co-design process that culminated in a program and implementation plan.Te theoretical underpinning of this plan was based on behavioural change theory that mapped the co-designed program plan to observable, replicable irreducible techniques designed to change behaviour [31]: in our study changing the behaviours of engaging with and enactment of safety messages to reduce the risk of falling, details are provided in supplementary fle 1b.Te panel dialogue was audio-recorded using a tablet and feld notes documented by the research assistant.Consumer panel dyads also participated in the safety action simulations for the production of video and message card resources.Copies of the co-designed resources were shared electronically with all consumer panel members and reviewed and approved prior to phase 2 testing.Te fnalised program consisted of a multimedia suite of 16 evidence-based safety messages (see supplementary fle 1c) that targeted older PLWD who were still relatively mobile but at high risk of falling.Te messages focussed on modifable fall risk factors, using pictures and rhyming sentences conveying actions to assist fall prevention in and around their home.

Phase Two. Te research team (JFC, AMH & JB)
provided training for the research assistant (RA) and home care staf in preparation for survey and education delivery, respectively (in phase 2).Te RA training included specialised communication strategies guided by a speech pathologist experienced in dementia communication management, to facilitate survey delivery and assist the older PLWD in engaging with the program.Briefy, the RA was trained to reassess the participant on each occasion and allow sufcient time for the participant to respond before repeating, prompting, or rephrasing a question.However, if an occasion arose whereby the older PLWD was having difculty responding to a question following prompting, the RA was trained to invite their caregiver to provide a proxy response.
As it has been reported that even in the mild phase of dementia, individuals have signifcant episodic memory impairments that impact encoding and retrieval capacities [21].Home care staf were previously trained in communication, managing adverse client behaviours, such as aggression, and COVID-19 infection control measures as part of the organisation's employment policy.
Te RA contacted participating dyads by telephone making appointments to conduct the preprogram surveys face to face at home.Copies of the survey questions were made available to participants in a written format for their reference.Te RA read all questions to the participants and recorded the responses verbatim.On completion, the RA read the documented responses back to the participants for member checking.
A detailed program implementation plan is available in Supplementary fle 1b.Within two days following baseline data collection (to aford participants a break), the home care physiotherapist visited the dyads to assess the older PLWD, determine their falls risk factors, and tailor appropriate safety messages.A maximum of six safety messages were selected and goals set in partnership with the dyads to best meet their needs.Delivery of the education program was conducted across four consecutive weekly therapy home visits.Home care therapy assistants (TA) delivered two safety messages each visit, so as not to overwhelm participants, prior to their usual therapy session with the fnal week reserved for revision.An electronic link to the program video was emailed to participants for use on their tablet, computer or smart television.Safety message cards were provided laminated (matt) in colour, size A4, and situationally positioned around the home interior or exterior verandah, patio, or courtyard.For example, the message card regarding choosing supportive footwear was placed on the wardrobe door where their shoes were stored or the maintaining a clear pathway message, free of debris, was placed at the entrance to the planted patio.Te caregiver completed a weekly observation diary noting any observed changes in safety behaviour relating to their goals, an example diary is provided in supp.fle 1d.Te TA delivering education also completed a refection diary providing their perspectives regarding the delivery of the education and any observed uptake of safety messages (goal achievement) by the clientcaregiver dyads.Te RA returned approximately one-week post-program completion to conduct the fnal survey with participating dyads as described above and collect the caregiver observation diaries.
Approximately one-month post-program completion, caregivers representing the dyad and TA staf received a follow-up telephone call (10 mins) from the lead researcher for any fnal comments on the fall prevention education program, responses were audio recorded.Tree months post-program completion members of the co-design consumer panel attended an online meeting, due to COVID-19 restrictions, facilitated by the lead researcher to discuss the study fndings, formulate recommendations and plan for dissemination.

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Results
3.1.Participant Characteristics.Twenty-six people participated across the two phases of the study.Eight people participated across phase one and two consumer panels.Adaptability).Using a CBPR approach was deemed appropriate for adapting an existing fall prevention education program for a diferent population (older PLWD and their caregivers), one dyad refected on their participation in the codesign process, "it was good to be involved in something so constructive."Adaptations to the original program resources are summarised in supp.fle 1g, indicating that safety message wording and explanatory text were modifed for appropriateness and improved understanding, along with the opportunity to customise resources to meet personal aesthetic preferences.Performance of the adapted program is reported under the criterion "Limited efcacy."

Phase Two
(2) Can the New Program be Judged as Suitable, Satisfying and Attractive to Recipients? (Program Acceptability).Older PLWD and their caregivers reported they were satisfed with the content, quality, and aesthetics of the program resources, one caregiver (I2) commented, "the content was appropriate and extremely relevant for ALL seniors" another (B2) added, "this [program] was such a consolidation, it brought everything together. ..and it brought a few things up."Te photographs were helpful in highlighting the active component of the safety message, one caregiver (G2) commented that "they brought the words to life" which supported learning.Others (I1 & 2) expressed their enjoyment of the use of rhymes in the safety messages to help them remember the actions, "Reading the rhymes out loud was a bit of fun!."A few dyads (D1 & 2, G1 & 2) suggested learning the rhymes could be more attractive by adding music so they could sing along.Having the autonomy to personalise the resource colour was appreciated by the dyads, the most popular choice was blue, one participant (H2) noted the colour was "modern" and another (C2) refected it was "good up against the white wall, easy to see." Tis motivated them to display in their homes either on a wall or table where they could be easily seen to prompt fall prevention action, a PLWD (D1) commented "Well I know myself I've got the thing on the wall [message card] to tell me. ..watch what you're doing and all that."Te length of the video was deemed less suitable for older PLWD with higher care needs as they were unable to attend to the video for its duration (8 minutes) a caregiver (E2) noted, "I'd put it on. ..but after a few minutes Dad would just get up and walk away." (3) How likely is the New Program to be Used?(Program Demand).Te intended usage of the education resources (message cards and/or video) was daily across the four weeks of program participation.Te caregiver and TA diaries showed the message cards were utilised more frequently than the video across the four weeks.Message cards were read by dyads between four and 57 times while the video was played between one and 29 times.
(4) Can the New Program be Successfully Delivered to the Intended Participants?(Program Implementation).Most dyads embraced the program with caregivers making every efort to incorporate it in to their daily lives (D2) "I read them [safety messages] with her in the morning and the evening then I'd put on the video to watch. ..it all helps" and (B1 & 2) "We do all the things. ..I'm like a bull terrier I watch him all the time", another caregiver (H2) summed up stating, "If the walker isn't next to her, she forgets and tries to get up on her own, I have to set it up. ..so it's all up to me really."TA educators supported this, reiterating that caregivers' belief in program benefts and their willingness or availability to participate infuenced implementation success, "When the caregiver was really invested in the program, it made a big diference."However, some caregivers had limited time to commit to the program, for example, due to employment outside the home or other familial responsibilities, and a few did not see the relevance of the program, one caregiver (A2) refected "It's fnding the time to discuss and fnding the inclination to discuss. ..it's just common sense."Another caregiver (B2) recounted their daughter visiting and removing the safety message cards from being displayed around their parents' home stating, "What do you want those [message cards] up for?Tey make you look like old people!." A few caregivers (B2, C2) reported they were not very comfortable with using technology like smart phones or tablets for learning and did not persevere (with the video), "I'm not very good with technology, so we pretty much gave up on the video."(5) Can the New Program be Carried Out with the Intended Participants Using Existing Means/Resources and Circumstances? (Program Practicality).Despite the program being codesigned by older PLWD and their caregivers, feedback indicated the current format of resources were not the best ft for an older PLWD with higher care needs (HCP level 4), a PLWD (I1) refected "I read them [safety messages] but I don't remember them."A caregiver (E2) commented "It seems to me there should be early engagement in a program like this to learn habits and make it stick."TA educators added that they felt the program would be more useful to new caregivers as, "they are keen for information" or for dyads who are moving to a new home, "It could be a great setup tool if they were in a new environment."Some older PLWD experienced deterioration in their health due to other co-morbid conditions that challenged their ability to participate without increased assistance, one caregiver (E2) commented, "My father has been receiving treatment for cancer that has left him very tired" and another (H2) reported "My wife is much frailer now, it's hard for her to even hold a pen."Te increased burden of care impacted caregiver participation resilience, one (F2) commented "Sometimes I feel so tired and just don't feel like going through the additional routine [assisting program delivery]."TA educators were challenged by the coaching tasks of reviewing the prior week's activity, action planning for the coming week, problem solving, and demonstrating safety actions in situ with the dyads as some aspects were new to their skill set and in-kind training time was limited to one hour.Delivering education during their home visit was also a challenge when expectations were to deliver their usual therapy treatments, one TA stated "you always felt you were doing it in a hurry."(i) Program resources in the current format were not deemed as acceptable for the PLWD as cognitive abilities declined (ii) Family caregivers/family and other home care staf in a supportive role were not always understanding of falls, fall prevention, and dementia-specifc communication requirements (iii) Some family caregivers were not confdent with using the technology required for the video learning resource (iv) Caregivers experienced some levels of fatigue and burden from providing 24 hr care and additional roles that impacted their ability to support the person they cared for participate in the program (v) Caregivers perceived the availability of the program to be less practical for the person they cared for as their cognitive abilities declined, as it challenged their ability to engage with and enact safety messages without support (vi) TA staf delivering the program were timechallenged integrating into their existing duties Recommendations on expanding the program will focus on addressing the identifed barriers to program acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, and integration for improved feasibility and are detailed in Table 4.

Discussion
4.1.Feasibility Enablers.Tis study used a CBPR approach that provided an opportunity for older PLWD, their caregivers, and homecare staf to have their voices heard and fully participate in the research process that contributed to program authenticity.Te active inclusion of these three stakeholder groups has been reported in a systematic review as a key factor for translating falls prevention knowledge to older PLWD and program success [37].Our fndings supported a larger Australian study (n = 174) that reported 90% of PLWD and impaired decision-making ability approved to participate in a wide range of research activities.Recommendations championed the need for change in recognising and including PLWD, refected in law reforms, such as ethics guidelines and frameworks of advance planning for research participation [20].Our safety messages framed fall prevention under the auspice of "staying safe and mobile at home to keep doing the things you enjoy," which was thought to be highly suitable.Tis positive framing was engaging for older PLWD possibly because it emphasised retaining mobility and independence rather than the negative connotations associated with being a faller, such as dependence, as reported by other researchers [8,38].Demonstrating program benefts to consumers expected to adopt a program has been reported as a key component for successful implementation [39].We demonstrated program benefts for family caregivers in alleviating their concerns about the person they cared for falling through program knowledge regarding mitigating falls risk factors that could facilitate future program implementation.Te use of behavioural change techniques, such as adding safety message cards to the home environment and providing instruction on how to perform fall prevention behaviours [31] enabled older PLWD, supported by their caregivers, to successfully engage with safety messages and enact a range of falls prevention behaviours.Tese included putting on a light at night when getting up to use the toilet and pausing when rising from a bed or chair to improve postural stability.

Feasibility Barriers.
We identifed that the current program safety message cards and video had too much information for some older PLWD, which may have challenged their ability to engage in learning and consequently enact the safety messages.Providing resources in a range of Health & Social Care in the Community formats to meet the changing needs of the PLWD, such as further simplifying wording with less text and editing shorter video clips, may assist future engagement and enactment.Our fndings were similar to those of Rose et al. [40], involving patients with aphasia who better understood health information in patient education materials that used simple wording and relevant pictures.Designing education materials to minimise information overload such as reducing into smaller chunks, as planned for our video, could facilitate future program learning [41,42] Additional demand for fall prevention education was identifed for all persons in the PLWD's support network.A recent integrative review on the challenges of conducting online education programs for family caregivers of people with dementia living at home, reported caregivers had limited access to dementia-related information [43].Tis highlights the need to co-design education resources that meet the needs and preferences of those providing support for a PLWD.Some family caregivers refected they were not confdent with using the technology required to access the program video resource.Tis resulted in withdrawal from usage and limited their learning opportunity.Similarly, this was reported as a major challenge to implementation by Wen et al. [43] in which the poor computer literacy of family caregivers constrained access to online education.Tis suggests that caregiver computer literacy should be addressed, and technology training made available in education programs that use online modalities.
Considering the infuence of those who support the older PLWD, including family members, is important when seeking to change falls prevention behaviours, as this is not always positive [8].Our fndings highlighted the negative impact on program implementation by some family members and caregivers in removing or not displaying program resources.Tis compromised the opportunity for the older PLWD to engage with safety messages and reminder prompts.Tis fnding was similar to a study conducted in a residential care home setting where a multimedia falls prevention education program was implemented [30].Some care staf chose not to display safety message posters in residents' rooms as they considered them incompatible with a "home-like" environment.Tis highlighted the need for everyone involved in supporting the older person to have an understanding of preventing falls and work together, as this has been reported as an important step for successful implementation [16,18].Some family caregivers expressed they were already fatigued in their supporting role, particularly as the PLWD they cared for experienced further decline, so adding an additional task (participating in the education program) was perceived as a burden.Tis increased burden has been reported in other studies of fall prevention management in caregivers of PLWD, where participants disclosed they struggled with the responsibilities of their role and as a consequence failed to take action or withdrew [41,44].Working with family caregivers to better understand their needs, and support their role and wellbeing, could also improve outcomes for the PLWD they care for [41,44].
Research studies investigating the attitudes of older PLWD and their caregivers have identifed the need for providing suitable, accessible, and timely falls prevention information [8,41].Many caregivers in our study felt the falls prevention education program provided would have been more useful if accessed at an earlier stage, as recipients of HCP level four tended to be more cognitively and functionally compromised, which challenged their capability to fully engage with and action falls prevention behaviours.Terefore, making the program available for early presentation to health services, memory clinics, or GP practices could prove a more practical program entry point.However, fndings from a study examining attitudes to falls amongst older people with early cognitive impairment were diverse, with many resisting identifying as potential "fallers" or  Health & Social Care in the Community acknowledging the need for early intervention to prevent a fall [8].Tis suggests that using a positive approach to fall prevention, framing the education program as prolonging mobility and independence for the older PLWD with a fexible range of multimedia resources to address their changing needs as the disease progresses could improve program engagement.Time to deliver education within the existing therapy assistant sessions was identifed as challenging.However, there is potential for the education program to be sustainably delivered through negotiated integration utilising other HCP staf roles.Te use of allied health professional staf in delivering restorative type programs to home care clients has been reported as cost prohibitive in the longer-term [45] but other studies have demonstrated it is feasible to train support workers to deliver exercise programs (that addressed falls) to home care clients [45,46].Terefore, training support worker staf to deliver fall prevention education programs, including exercise, to home care clients with dementia should be investigated.

Strengths and Weaknesses.
A key strength of this study was it was co-designed with consenting older PLWD supported by a home care package, their caregivers, and home care staf who were the intended users of the education program.As prior research has also reported that older PLWD are keen for the opportunity to engage in decisionmaking processes that afect their health [24,41].Utilising an inclusive CBPR approach enabled researchers to better understand participant needs for improving both program feasibility and outcomes.Our program also provided the opportunity to accommodate individual preferences (tailoring), through selection of resource aesthetics, which has been reported as both a factor for potentially improving engagement with falls prevention [37] and successful implementation [39].Multiple data sources were utilised; consumer engagement panel feedback, surveys, staf interviews, and observation diaries to support research rigour [28].Limitations included the designed program was not suitable for older adults in the late stage of dementia as our inclusion criteria specifed higher levels of communication and understanding, as the education program was aimed at older PLWD that could still be involved in decision-making processes and engage with written and audio-visual materials.Te use of the term "unsure," selected by participants in the co-design phase, to represent a neutral scoring may be potentially misleading to the reader as meaning missing data, which would compromise analysis and validity.However, the wording was clearly explained to participants by the trained RA and was fully acknowledged as a neutral response by the participants.We included a procedure for appropriate acceptance of a proxy response in our RA 10 Health & Social Care in the Community training, as it has been reported that even in the mild phase of dementia individuals have signifcant episodic memory impairments that impact encoding and retrieval capacities [21].Tere is mixed evidence regarding the reliability of proxy responses, and few studies reporting the reliability of proxy responses of caregivers residing with a PLWD.Chappell and Kadlec [47] reported on the accuracy of proxy responses of home care service use by PLWD and found 81% agreement (with government records) for spouses who resided with the PLWD but only 50% for other family members, even if they resided together.However, Lopez et al. [48] found that proxy characteristics such as amount of time they shared with the client, the frequency and intensity of such contact, as well as the quality of their communication and relationship impacted reliability.We considered the enduring relationships and daily contact our dyads had together positively contributed to their response reliability.We did not ask the RA to formally record the number of proxy responses, but our procedural notes indicated only three PLWD required a proxy response to between one and fve questions.We acknowledge that physical function contributes to falls risk and requires targeting within a prevention program, but the focus of this study was response to the education, and we did not aim to report any physical/functional outcome measures.Larger future studies of fall prevention education programs should measure functional outcomes along with falls and falls injuries.Tis study was conducted at a single community service provider organisation with a small sample, partly impacted by the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, so the fndings should be interpreted with caution.

Conclusion
Co-designing and evaluating a falls prevention education program with older PLWD, their caregivers, and HCP staf was deemed a feasible and worthwhile experience.Older PLWD engaged with and enacted safety messages supported by their caregivers, but may beneft more from earlier program exposure.Caregiver concerns regarding the person they cared for falling were signifcantly reduced.Future program expansion should address identifed barriers to program acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, and integration to further improve feasibility before testing across multiple sites with a larger population.Ultimately, undertaking such a program may enable older PLWD to reduce their risk of falling and remain safely at home.
How concerned are you about the person you care for?Not recovering from a .Te statistically signifcant changes are bolded to assist the reader in identifying them.

Table 2 :
Comparison of older people living with dementia's awareness, confdence, opportunity, motivation, and intention for preventing falls.

Table 3 :
Comparison of caregiver concerns regarding the person they care for falling.

Table 4 :
Program expansion for improved feasibility. of the program to educate those providing support for the older PLWD in their home environment (other staf, family members) Promote accountability for program adherence with a daily tick-box calendar Implementation Educate caregivers, family members, and home care staf to support their role and reduce burden in assisting the older PLWD to reduce their risk of falling across the dementia continuum through: (i) Training in dementia-specifc communication and coaching skills (ii) Training in using technology for learning Practicality Trial the education program targeting older PLWD at an earlier stage of cognitive decline via: (i) Memory or GP clinics (ii) HCP providers (level 1-2 care package recipients) Integration Community care providers could invest in some additional training for their home care staf to efectively deliver the education program: (i) As a dedicated component of the therapy service package (ii) Reiterated within daily care support service delivery Professional allied health staf could incorporate program evaluation within their existing client reviews Limited efcacy Further evaluate program implementation and impact on key variables, including functional outcomes, falls, and injurious fall rates, across multiple community care organisations with a larger sample PLWD, person living with dementia.