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This conference focuses on falls prevention and management in older adults with a focus on ensuring effective and resilient falls prevention activity. The conference will update delegates on the 2025 NICE Guidance update: Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and people 50 and over at higher risk and highlight best practice through case studies.
Sessions will support you to set up a comprehensive falls management and prevention service and will focus on interventions to reduce the risk of falls as indicated by the 2025 NICE guideline. We will explore implementation of effective interventions in community and inpatient care focused on activity and falls, developing an effective falls prevention programme, effective personalised multidisciplinary assessment including the new MASA tool, vestibular dysfunction, the psychological impact of falling, medication management and improving secondary prevention. The conference will also discuss key elements in the reduction of falls in your service including strength, balance and exercise promotion, managing underlying health issues, developing personalized falls prevention care plans, and frailty presenting as falls. The conference will update delegates on national requirements for falls investigation and learning under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), the move to neighbourhood health, and maximising ongoing participation in falls prevention interventions.
Older people with frailty are more likely to experience recurrent falls than older people without frailty. Frailty-induced falls are associated with a greater risk of fractures, hospitalisation, and a permanent move to a care home. Frailty assessment and diagnosis can be a gateway to support and services, including support to prevent falls. The conference will discuss effective falls prevention interventions for people with frailty.
“Falls and fractures are a common and serious health issue faced by older people in England. People aged 65 and older have the highest risk of falling; around a third of people aged 65 and over, and around half of people aged 80 and over, fall at least once a year. Falling is a cause of distress, pain, injury, loss of confidence, loss of independence and mortality..”
UK Government
“Falls present a major, growing public health problem that can have devastating effects on older people and those at-risk due to medical conditions, often resulting in a loss of independence, chronic pain, and reduced quality of life.”
Professor Jonathan Benger, NICE, 2025
“Falls are the leading cause of hospital admissions in older people and can have serious consequences, including being a primary reason in a person losing their independence later on in life…Identifying those at greatest risk of falls and providing them with the preventative help and support they need will not only improve people’s lives, but it will also free up clinical time and resource too.”
Dr Tom Downes, NHS national clinical director for older people, 2025
“These falls and fractures account for over 4 million bed days a year at an estimated cost of £2 billion.”
NHS England 2025
“The updated guideline recommends offering a comprehensive falls assessment and management for people who have fallen in the past year and are living with frailty, were injured in a fall, experienced loss of consciousness related to the fall, have been unable to get up independently after a fall, or have had two or more falls. ”
NICE, 2025
Benefits of attending:
Network with colleagues who are working to improving falls prevention and management in older adults
Reflect on national developments, national audits and the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention
Implement the 2025 NICE Guideline update on Falls: assessment and prevention in older adults and adults 50 and over at higher risk
Maximise ongoing participation in falls prevention interventions
Develop competence in falls prevention and management
Improve your skills in the development of healthy ageing and effective strength and balance programmes
Examine how a human factors approach could support you to prevent falls
Understand the national requirements for falls investigation under PSIRF, and how findings from investigations can be used to inform falls prevention
Change the way you assess patients: Multifactorial assessment to optimise safe activity (MASA)
Reflect on the implications of neighbourhood health for falls prevention
Understand how you can better meet the psychological needs of those who have fallen
Improve falls education and awareness in older people and support people to change behaviour
Identify and manage people at risk of falling, and effectively investigate and learn from falls when they do occur
Improve secondary prevention of falls and fractures
Learn from best practice understanding the role of the vestibular system in maintaining balance and falls risk
Update your knowledge on how effective medicines management can reduce falls
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
