Franziska Kramer-Gmeiner

Universität Heidelberg

Background: the individually delivered Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) was shown to improve physical activity (PA) and reduce fall incidence, however being rather resource-consuming due to one-to-one delivery. A potentially less resource-intensive group format (gLiFE) was developed and compared against the original program, consider...

Objective: The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) intervention has been shown to promote physical activity in fall-prone older adults. However, the underlying mechanisms of how LiFE functions remain unclear. This study compares the effects of the individual and group-based LiFE formats on psychological determinants of behavior change...

Introduction: Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) is an effective, individually delivered fall prevention program but comes with substantial resource requirements; hence, a group-format was developed (gLiFE). This study 1) evaluates the program content of two different LiFE formats (group vs individual) and 2) examines the relationship...

Lifestyle-integrated exercise is a promising approach to increase adherence levels of older adults compared to structured exercise programs as it saves time and effort and supports older adults in preventing falls and functional decline. The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program embodies this approach by integrating physical activ...

Background The ‘Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise’ (LiFE) program successfully reduced risk of falling via improvements in balance and strength, additionally increasing physical activity (PA) in older adults. Generally being delivered in an individual one-to-one format, downsides of LiFE are considerable human resources and costs which hampe...

Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag stellt eine Aktualisierung des Empfehlungspapiers der Bundesinitiative Sturzprävention für das körperliche Gruppentraining zur Sturzprävention bei älteren, zu Hause lebenden Menschen aus dem Jahre 2009 unter Berücksichtigung aktueller Evidenz dar. Das aktualisierte Empfehlungspapier zielt darauf ab, die Umsetzung ambu...

Background: older persons can be grouped according to their objective risk of falling (ORF) and perceived risk of falling (PRF) into ‘vigorous’ (low ORF/PRF), ‘anxious’ (low ORF/high PRF), ‘stoic’ (high ORF/low PRF) and ‘aware’ (high ORF/PRF). Sensor-assessed daily walking activity of these four groups has not been investigated, yet. Objective: we...

This study examined the applicability of the health action process approach (HAPA) to walking duration in older adults and the added value of extending the HAPA by intrinsic motivation. Self-reports from older adults ( N = 309; M age = 78.7, 70–95 years) regarding activity-related intrinsic motivation and HAPA variables were collected at the baseli...

Background:The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is an effective but resource-intensive fallprevention program delivered one-to-one in participants’ homes. A recently developed group-based LiFE (gLiFE) could enhance large-scale implementability and decrease resource intensity. The aim of this qualitative focus groupstudy is to...

Some persons have low functional risk (FR) but also high levels of fear of falling (FOF), in some it may be the exact opposite; in others, FOF matches actual functional risk. In order to characterise older persons in this respect, Delbaere et al. (2010) defined four groups: ‘vigorous’ (low FR/FOF), ‘anxious’ (low FR/high FOF), ‘stoic’ (high FR/low...

Background: The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is an effective but resource-intensive fall prevention program delivered one-to-one in participants’ homes. A recently developed group-based LiFE (gLiFE) could enhance large-scale implementability and decrease resource intensity. The aim of this qualitative focus group study is...

Einleitung: Das „Lifestyle-Integrated Functional Exercise“ (LiFE) Programm steigert über alltagsinte-grierte Übungen die Kraft (K), Gleichgewichtsfähigkeit (GW) sowie körperliche Aktivität (KA) und senkt die Sturzrate bei älteren Menschen. Bislang werden dessen theoretische und praktische Inhalte mit hohem personellen Aufwand personalisiert über Ha...

Background: The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) programme is a fall prevention programme originally taught in a resource-intensive one-to-one format with limited feasibility for large-scale implementation. The aim of this paper is to present the conceptual framework and initial feasibility evaluation of a group-based LiFE (gLiFE) f...

Background The Lifestyle-Integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is effective in improving strength, balance, and physical activity (PA) while simultaneously reducing falls in older people by incorporating exercise activities in recurring daily tasks. However, implementing the original LiFE program includes substantial resource requirements....

Despite the common knowledge about the individual character of human gait patterns and about their non-repeatability, little is known about their stability, their interactions and their changes over time. Variations of gait patterns are typically described as random deviations around a stable mean curve derived from groups, which appear due to nois...

DAILY CHANGES OF INDIVIDUAL GAIT PATTERNS Horst, F., Kramer, F., Schäfer, B., Eekhoff, A., Hegen, P. & Schöllhorn, W.I. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) Introduction Biomechanical diagnoses and clinical interventions typically assume nearly constant movement patterns in their subjects. Clinical gait analysis often seeks to evaluat...