 The FIT-at-Home fall prevention program is an evidence-based, theory-informed, and user-endorsed intervention, which is a home-based lifestyle-integrated physical exercise training and home modification program for older people with a risk of falling, functional limitations, and limited mobility.

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People with mobility, circulatory, respiratory, or neurological disabilities use many kinds of devices for mobility. Advances in technology have given rise to new devices that some people with disabilities use as mobility devices, including many veterans injured while serving in the military.

- Wheelchairs
- Crutches, walkers
- Joysticks
- Head pointers
- Trackballs
- Eye- or head-trackers
- Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

Mobility

Christian Müller, Sindy Lautenschläger, Christine Dörge, Sebastian Voigt-Radloff. (2021) A feasibility study of a home-based lifestyle-integrated physical exercise training and home modification for community-living older people (Part 2): the FIT-at-Home fall prevention program. [ABSTRACT] Disability and Rehabilitation 43:10, pages 1380-1390. DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2019.1661530

Development of a lifestyle-integrated physical exercise training and home modification intervention for older people living in a community with a risk of falling (Part 1): the FIT-at-Home fall prevention program

The Independent Mobility-related Physical ACTivity (IMPACT) Program is a coach-supported intervention that uses self-management strategies to empower patients who went through stroke to engage in additional autonomous walking-related activities after stroke during and after inpatient rehabilitation.

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