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This conference focuses on falls prevention and management in older people with a focus on ensuring effective and resilient falls prevention activity during and beyond Covid-19. Sessions throughout the day will focus on the impact of the pandemic on older people, activity and falls, developing falls prevention and healthy ageing, understanding human factors in falls prevention, meeting the psychological needs of those who have fallen or are at risk of falls, improving falls education and awareness, effective personalised multidisciplinary assessment, reducing falls on the ward, falls and mental health including delirium prevention, 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, frailty presenting as falls and improving the systems for falls monitoring, investigation and learning.
“COVID-19 has led that most countries impose lockdown or quarantine and several mobility restrictions that affect the physical activity levels of older adults, increasing sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity…Physical inactivity may increase and exacerbating the risk of disabilities and it is one of the risk factors leading to falls”
“COVID-19 has confined many older and vulnerable adults to their homes for a long period of time and continues to do so as restrictions in certain areas get tighter. This, as well as restricted access to healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, could mean that ongoing fall accidents are not reported and the continued lockdown restrictions may have exposed many older adults to more fall risk factors, such as, inactivity, social isolation and anxiety.”
Benefits of attending:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improving falls prevention and management in older people
- Reflect on the impact of the pandemic on older people, activity levels and falls prevention services
- Develop your skills and improve 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
- Learn from established in the development of multidisciplinary assessment and post fall protocols
- 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 in dementia, delirium prevention and falls
- Update your knowledge on how effective medicines management can reduce falls
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Gain cpd accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
