The findings of this survey are consistent with previous findings in the published fall injury prevention literature. The results from the survey will assist in the design of community oriented fall injury prevention strategies and will form the baseline measure for the evaluation of the impact of these strategies in NSW.

This study demonstrates that a home-based task-specific exercise and training protocol for STS can induce improved performance of STS and increase walking speed more than one year after stroke.

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These findings give insights into older adults' perceptions of factors that influence their physical activity, which could assist physical activity program planning in this population.

With our rapidly ageing population there is an urgent imperative to minimise the rate of falls and associated injuries. A key challenge to public health is to better conceptualise and contextualise falls prevention evidence for more effective policy making and practice. This paper describes how NSW Health adopted the Nutbeam and Bauman Stages of Research and Evaluation Model in the strategic development of the NSW Health Plan for Prevention of Falls and Harm from Falls Among Older People: 2011-2015. Research evidence has been comprehensively applied to every stage of the development of the Plan and research and evaluation is a key action area within the new Plan. The Stages of Research and Evaluation Model provides a useful overarching framework for policy makers to contextualise and more effectively apply research evidence throughout the policy making process from problem definition to program monitoring.With the rapid ageing population 1 there is an urgent imperative to reduce rates of falls and fall-related injuries to reduce harm to older people and the burden on the health and aged-care systems. It is now widely accepted that research evidence can enhance policy and practice by assisting in the identification and definition of priorities, informing decisions on policy development and implementation and by evaluating their impact.2-5 Falls prevention is no exception. Recent years have seen growth in research evidence on preventing falls in older people, however the question remains how best to achieve this objective when the transfer of new knowledge from research to practice continues to be less than optimal.6-10