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Minority ethnic elders falls prevention programme
— Year 1 2005 [and] Year 2 2006 Progress report | | Author(s) | Emma Spragg, Anna D'Agostina |
| Corporate Author | Minority Ethnic Elders Falls Programme (MEEFP), Help the Aged |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, 2005 / 2006 |
| Pages | 2 vols (30 pp and 21 pp) |
| Source | Download from website: http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/meefp |
| Keywords | Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Ethnic groups ; Projects. |
| Annotation | The Minority Ethnic Elders Falls Programme (MEEFP) run by Help the Aged to raise awareness on falls prevention with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) older people and their carers closed in March 2007. This three-year programme was funded by the Department of Health (DH) and addressed issues such as the lack of access to falls prevention services by BME older people because of language barriers; their limited knowledge on the availability of services in their locality; and the unsuitability of practices for different communities. The MEEFP supported pilot projects which incorporated the views of BME older people in the planning and delivery of their work in a variety of locations throughout England (Barnet, Camden, another North London location, Manchester, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Doncaster and Leeds). In the third and final year, information about the MEEFP programme was disseminated to over 200 organisations and presented at conferences and exhibitions in England. To support the programme, various resources were produced to target both practitioners and older people including two exercise videos. These two reports chart the Programme's progress with a description of all projects, the challenges, successes and lessons learned. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080418207 E |
| Classmark | OLF: LK2: TK: 3E |
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