The STEADY™ Program
Safe · Trusted · Empowering · Active · inDependent · You — the program built for your loved one.
STEADY™ is our flagship program — an evidence-based, progressive, one-on-one training program built specifically for older adults. It combines physical training, cognitive dual-task work, home-environment safety, and lifestyle coaching into a single 8-week arc that builds real-world balance skills for your loved one.
During the 8-week program, the coach will also review other factors that may contribute to fall risk, including medications and supplements, vision, home safety, hearing, footwear, and other relevant lifestyle or environmental factors.
Session length: Sessions are 45 minutes long — enough time to do the focused work without fatiguing an older adult, and short enough to fit comfortably into the week.
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How it works
Comprehensive Assessment
Your loved one's medical history, medications, gait and balance are assessed, along with a review of vision-related and other fall-risk factors.
Personalized Plan
A plan tailored to your loved one's risks, goals, and the activities they want to return to.
Progressive Training
Your loved one attends twice-weekly one-on-one sessions over 8 weeks. Exercises evolve as they progress.
Home Safety Inspection (optional)
ECHM (Executive Certification in Home Modification)-certified occupational therapists can perform an optional home inspection. When requested, they inspect your loved one's home — where greater than 50% of falls happen — provide a comprehensive in-person and written report of findings, and recommend independent contractors to carry out identified modifications.
Homework & Habits
Your loved one receives homework after every session to improve awareness of fall risks and reinforce balance skills — small daily habits that carry the studio work into everyday life.
Progress Tracking
Your loved one's measurable gains in strength, gait, and confidence can be shared with their physician on request.
Why it works
The evidence is clear. Dual-task training, single-leg work, and functional strength — done consistently and progressively — dramatically reduce fall risk in older adults. Research has shown 43% reductions in fall risk from single-leg training alone, and even larger effects when balance is combined with cognitive challenge.
What makes STEADY™ different is its focus on your loved one: one coach, one plan, and individualized attention.
Transition to Ongoing Skill Training — after STEADY™
Balance naturally declines with aging. Muscle mass, reaction time, proprioception, and vision all change year over year — and the gains your loved one makes in STEADY™ need reinforcement to last. That's why STEADY™ doesn't end — your loved one transitions into Ongoing Skill Training. Balance skills degrade without continued practice, and the aging process does not stop, so balance-focused training should continue rather than end.
Ongoing Skill Training sessions keep balance skills sharp, progressively challenge your loved one as their body changes, and catch new risk factors early — before they lead to a fall. Most clients continue with 2 sessions per week, tailored to their goals and season of life. It is an evidence-based way to preserve and build on the gains STEADY™ creates.
Think of STEADY™ as the training arc, and Ongoing Skill Training as the practice that keeps it. Confidence doesn't stay by accident.