KINS 180 An Introduction to ‘Stay Active and Independent for Life’ (SAIL) (2 credits)

2. Identify best practices for fall prevention in older adults.

3. State the rationale for each component of the SAIL strength, balance, and fitness class and discuss how each component contributes to fall prevention in an older adult.

4. State the five components of a SAIL strength, balance, and fitness class, demonstrate how to perform each exercise in each component, and demonstrate how to adapt each exercise to a seated position.

5. State the requirements for starting a SAIL Program in a community that will maximize the long-term success of the Program.

6. Demonstrate the ability to perform Fitness Checks (Timed Up & Go, Chair Stand, Biceps Curl) with older adults, and discuss and interpret the results.

7. Demonstrate the ability to complete the Class Evaluation Tool, and develop a plan to achieve compliance to maintain fidelity of the SAIL Program.

8. Demonstrate how to integrate the SAIL Information Guide, and the SAIL Exercise Guide in a SAIL Program to achieve acceptance of the guides by older adults.

9. Identify common age-related chronic health conditions, and discuss safety precautions for exercising with each medical condition.

10. Identify reasons why older adults do not exercise, and discuss strategies to gain their compliance with healthy behaviors.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will promote the health and fitness of older adults, and reduce their risk of falling, by demonstrating fidelity to the core tenets of the “Stay Active and Independent for Life” Program. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20