“Stay strong and prevent falls with just 10 minutes of exercise each day.”
HomeStrong was created to help older people improve their strength and balance to stay active and prevent falls.
When people can’t do their regular activities, muscle strength and balance decrease quickly. This raises the risk of falls that cause fractures and other injuries.
The good news is that anyone—regardless of age—can get stronger with exercise. Even people in their 80s and 90s can improve their strength and balance which will help them to stay fit and independent.
Our simple exercises have been proven in many studies to help older people to stay strong, steady on their feet and decrease their risk of falls. Most people can safely do these exercises on their own with no special equipment.
About Us
Nancy Latham, BSc(PT), PhD trained as a physical therapist in Canada. She is currently an Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. For more than 20 years, she has helped to lead research studies about exercise and fall prevention for older people. Her work has been published in medical journals that include JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Her favorite activities are hiking and exploring nature with her husband, two children and their dog, Daisy.
Allan Coukell, BSc(Pharmacy) trained as a pharmacist and worked for many years as a healthcare journalist for public radio. He was most recently Senior Director of Health Programs at The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit policy and advocacy organization, where he oversaw a range of initiatives aimed at promoting health. He now serves as Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Civica, a nonprofit organization established to manufacture essential medicines for hospitals. When he is not working or spending time with his family, he can be found camping or riding bicycles.
Expert Advisors
Neil Alexander, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Shalender Bhasin, MD
Harvard Medical School,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
Martha B. Carnie, AS
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Pamela Duncan, PhD, PT
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston, Salem, NC
Patricia C. Dykes, RN, PhD, MA
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Priscilla Gazarian, RN, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Thomas M. Gill, MD
Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Yale University; New Haven, CT
Jerry H. Gurwitz, MD
Meyers Primary Care Institute, a joint endeavor of Reliant Medical Group,
Fallon Health, and University of Massachusetts
Medical School, Worcester, MA
Fred Ko, MD, MS
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Siobhan McMahon, PhD, MPH
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
David B Reuben, MD
Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Los Angeles, CA
Jeremy Rich, DPM
HealthCare Partners, El Segundo, CA
Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Thomas W. Storer, PhD
Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Research Program in Men’s Health: Aging and Metabolism; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Albert. W. Wu, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD