Teaching the Getting Up From the Floor Among Long-Term Care Facility Residents

"Each session lasts for 40 minutes starting with a five minutes warming-up including flexibility exercises and ends with a five minutes cooling-down consisting of stretching and breathing exercises. Warming-up is followed by the practicing of getting up floor taught with BMC involving the following 7 steps:~Step 1: descending from a standing position to half kneeling on a wedge pillow. Step 2: descending from a standing position to half kneeling on the floor. Step 3: Like step 2, then descending both knees to the floor into a high kneeling position. Step 4: Like step 3, then descending both hands to the floor one at a time, to come to a prone kneeling position. Step 5: Like step 4, then descending of the body to half sitting. A pillow can be positioned under the hip to soften the floor surface. Step 6: Like step 5, then descending of the body to side lying position. Step 7: Like step 6, then turning from side-lying to supine"