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Preventing falls in older age with yoga-based exercise: effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and implementation

Description: This trial will determine the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and implementation potential of yoga-based exercise for preventing falls in people aged 65+. This project addresses the urgent public health challenge of population ageing and is aligned with the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health 2016-2020. Results have the potential to change policy and practice, improve quality of life and reduce the economic cost of an ageing population.

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Amount: A$930,100

Funding type: research

Funder scheme: Project Grants - Standard Project Grant

Investigator: A/Pr Tiedemann

Institution: University of Sydney

Topic: Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Funded outputs count: 5

Funder award ID: 1163067

OpenAlex ID: G5622040726

The effect of an Iyengar yoga-based exercise programme versus a seated yoga relaxation programme on falls in people aged 60 years and older (SAGE): a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel randomised controlled trial

2025 · Juliana S Oliveira, Catherine Sherrington, et al. · The Lancet Healthy Longevity · 6

‘My words become my hands’: Yoga instructors’ experiences of adapting teleyoga in the SAGE fall prevention trial—A qualitative analysis

2023 · Heidi Gilchrist, Abby Haynes, et al. · Digital Health · 8

“I wouldn’t have joined if it wasn’t online”: understanding older people’s engagement with teleyoga classes for fall prevention

2022 · Abby Haynes, Heidi Gilchrist, et al. · BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies · 21

Using Realist Evaluation to Understand Process Outcomes in a COVID-19-Impacted Yoga Intervention Trial: A Worked Example

2021 · Abby Haynes, Heidi Gilchrist, et al. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 24

Yoga-based exercise to prevent falls in community-dwelling people aged 60 years and over: study protocol for the Successful AGEing (SAGE) yoga randomised controlled trial

2020 · Juliana S Oliveira, Catherine Sherrington, et al. · BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine · 7