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Retraining Balance Using Task-Focussed Work-Stations, Nancy Low Choy

Nancy Low Choy

Extract:

This chapter aims to:
Present a task-oriented approach to retraining balance and mobility using workstations as an effective mode of delivering tailored interventions to individual or small groups of residents or community-based elders who are: frail aged; elders who ambulate with supervision within residential care facilities; or elders who are independently ambulant in the community.

Provide an outline of workstations that illustrate varying levels of challenge but address the multiple aspects of balance and mobility that need to be considered while retraining balance and mobility in elders.

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