Fall prevention exercise video clips and community education
Fall Prevention Video Series
Gaia Cares Fall Prevention Series 3.0
- How to assist seniors from lying to wake up and walk
Gaia Cares Fall Prevention Exercise Demonstration 1.0
Gaia Cares Fall Prevention Exercise Video 2.0
June 5, 2024
Fall Prevention Educational Seminar and Assessment at Vancouver Shunde Benevolent Association
May 11, 2024
Highlights of Fall Prevention Awareness Day in Burnaby
Gaia Cares held the Fall Prevention Awareness Day last Saturday in Burnaby. Close to 30 participants joined the free fall assessment. Volunteers of Gaia Cares share tips to seniors on ways to minimize the risk of fall. Great thanks to MLA Janet Routledge who freely let us use their office for this community event.
May 4, 2024
CCM Safety & Secure Living Fair 5/4/2024
Gaia Cares participated for the first time at "CCM Safety & Secure Living Fair" in Aberdeen Centre last Saturday. Volunteers helped distributed many gift bags and promoted our programs and service to the public. Later 7 seniors from Chinatown with the guidance from our staff demonstrated the Fall Prevention Exercise performance on the main stage and received many applause from the audience.
February 17, 2024
Lunar New Year Celebration 2024 with MLA Henry Yao
Thanks Henry Yao MLA for counting Gaia Cares as one of his working partners and providing a chance to set up a booth on last Saturday(17th) at Gateway Theatre, Richmond. It is so glad having volunteers Ophelia and Alex to share Gaia Cares's fall prevention works and "free" fall prevention assessment test to the participants of the Lunar New Year Show. It is expected to raise fall prevention awareness at different communities in Metro Vancouver.
December 8, 2023
Fall Prevention Awareness Talk at Vancouver Fu Guang Shan Temple
Sharing the message of fall prevention at a community level is one of the goals of Gaia Cares. On 12/8, Vancouver Fu Guang Shan Temple was another place to serve by Fall prevention team. Daniel Yam, the program manager of Gaia Cares, had a hour talk with closely 40 participants in Richmond. Not only restricting on merely listening, the participants were encouraged to taste the fall prevention exercise together. It is expected to have more collaboration like fall prevention assessment and exercise class in future.
September 16, 2023
Highlights of Fall Prevention Awareness Day in Richmond
Gaia Cares held its first "Fall Prevention Day" in Richmond on September 16. Within two hours, it provided free fall prevention assessments to nearly 60 seniors at the office of Provincial Councilor Henry Yao. High-risk seniors were encouraged to attend fall prevention exercise classes and seek professional help.
September 9
Gaia Cares Volunteers: Summer, Yvonne, Cheryl and Steven worked together with a eco-friendly info board which helps promote the awareness of fall among seniors. On Sep 9th, they meet the public at Brighouse Skytrain station, play games and award the participating seniors. Hope the message spread across Canada and seniors can have a good quality life.
June 20, 2023
The Fall prevention exercise in-house class was held since last year at different SROs in Chinatown of Vancouver. It is time to have a quick review and hear their feedback on the effectiveness after exercise. Moreover, the later part of video is a short version of our second stage of fall prevention exercise video which allows the elderly doing exercise at home and building up this kind of habit.