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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.
“The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a major impact on both older people and falls prevention services in England”
“Falls and fall-related injuries are common in older adults, have negative effects both on quality of life and functional independence and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health care costs.”
“The pandemic has reduced opportunities for older people to be active, leading to a decline in muscle mass, physical deconditioning, increased frailty, and an increased risk of falls.”
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
- 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
