Senior Home Connection articles
I write about movement from the perspective of an Exercise Physiologist who has worked across aged care, falls prevention, community health and early childhood.
These articles explore how strength, balance, confidence, connection and meaningful activity can support people to keep participating in everyday life.
It can be hard when someone you love keeps saying no to help, movement, activities or leaving the house. Sometimes the most useful response is not to push harder, but to slow down and work out what the no may be telling you.
Robyn Papworth
Exercise Physiologist
Falls prevention is not simply about telling someone to sit down or encouraging them to have a go. Safety, confidence, strength, balance and the person's individual risks all need to be considered together.
Robyn Papworth
Exercise Physiologist
When you care about someone, it is natural to want to make life safer and easier for them. The difficult part can be knowing when to help and when to leave room for them to keep doing things in their own way.
Robyn Papworth
Exercise Physiologist
Co regulation does not need to be complicated. Sometimes it is music, movement, a familiar object or simply having another person beside you who notices what helps the moment feel easier.
Robyn Papworth
Exercise Physiologist
Somewhere along the way, play becomes something we associate with childhood. I think we lose something important when movement, music, curiosity and shared activity quietly disappear from adult life.
Robyn Papworth
Exercise Physiologist
My career began in aged care, moved through years of falls prevention and then took me deeply into children's movement. Coming back to older adult work has helped me see how strongly those parts of my career belong together.
Robyn Papworth
Exercise Physiologist
The idea underneath my work
Whether I am thinking about a child learning to jump or an older adult wanting to keep walking to the garden, movement matters because of what it allows us to keep doing.