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Aim: To explore physiotherapists' experiences with recruiting, training, and supervising volunteer instructors responsible for leading Sterk og stødig (English: Strong and Steady) exercise groups as part of the municipality's fall prevention services for home-dwelling older adults. Method: Four individual in-depth interviews with physiotherapists employed across various municipalities were analysed using systematic text condensation. Findings: Five themes were identified: (1) A natural role that provides variety in the workday, (2) Recruitment – a new role, (3) Volunteers as bridges for knowledge sharing, (4) Continuous supervision to ensure correct exercise dosage, and (5) Strong and Steady for the target group? The study shows that the training and supervisory roles in Strong and Steady were perceived as natural, characterised by confidence, competence, and a positive attitude towards preventive work with the target group. Volunteer instructors served as knowledge facilitators on exercise and fall prevention for group participants. Recruiting suitable volunteer instructors was essential for both training effectiveness and program continuity but was also resource-intensive for the physiotherapists. There were differing views on including group participants outside the target group. Conclusion: Physiotherapists find that tasks related to the Strong and Steady program align well with their professional roles. Despite the resource-intensive nature of recruitment, collaboration with volunteer group instructors serves as a valuable resource in fall prevention efforts. Identifying appropriate solutions related to recruitment work is essential.

Purpose: To investigate characteristics of older adults, who did not regain mobility after hip fracture, and to describe the amount of physiotherapy these groups received the first year after their hip fracture. Design: Prospective cohort study. Material: During hospital stay, and 4 and 12 months after surgery 129 home-dwelling older adults (≥ 70 years) with hip fracture were tested. Method: We classified level of regaining mobility after 12 months by using the mobility scale of Nottingham I-ADL Scale. The relationship between not regained mobility and physical function (Short Physical Performance Battery), cognitive function (Clinical Dementia Assessment and the Norwegian Revised Mini-Mental State Examination), pain during walking (Numeric Rating Scale), fear of falling (Short Falls Efficacy Scale International), depression (Geriatric Depression Scale) and number of physiotherapy consultations based on data from HELFO and municipal journal, was evaluated by logistic regression. Results: Participants’ mean age were 82.8 (±6.26) years and 55% did not regain mobility 12 months after the hip fracture. Physical function at four months was an independent predictor for not regaining mobility (OR 0.68; p

When a leader leaves office, the leader becomes impotent, divested of power. This makes the actual moment of farewell a particularly interesting case study in leadership, as the farewell moment marks the transition of power from one leader to another. Many leaders use the point of departure as an opportunity to articulate the legacy of the institution they leave behind. This article offers a rhetorical and theological analysis of the farewell sermon delivered by former presiding bishop of the Church of Norway, Helga Haugland Byfuglien in January 2020, and a shorter, comparative analysis of the equivalent farewell sermon of the former Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Anders Wejryd (2014). The article analyses how Byfuglien and Wejryd conceptualize the legacy of the church with the use of epideictic and deliberative rhetoric (rhetorical analysis) and discuss what kind of legacy (theological analysis and discussion) they promote. The article argues that both Byfuglien and Wejryd use the farewell sermon as a rhetorical opportunity to articulate the church's legacy for the future, although their own formal power to execute that legacy is coming to an end. Byfuglien appeals to a diaconal vision of the church's legacy, with a tendency to emphasize the church`s welcoming and inclusive character. Wejryd addresses the current ecclesiological situation in more detail. By assessing the church`s numerical decline and changed societal status as a crisis, he mainly appeals to the church's missional legacy. The article concludes that the farewell sermons of both Byfuglien and Wejryd may be interpreted as a sort of inheritance dispute, or better heritage dispute: In their farewell sermons, the departing bishops present their last(ing) act of leadership, appealing to the audience to commit to a particular vision of the church's legacy.