21st September 2024
Registration details: via Humanitix (click here) or link —->
A comprehensive workshop providing you with the practical skills to develop evidence-based fall prevention strategies.
Who is this course for?
For Health Professionals working with older people. This workshop will help you tailor exercise programs for falls prevention.
Workshop Schedule
6 online learning modules completed through our online learning platform. To be completed prior to the practical session.
A 3hr face-to-face practical session including fall risk screening, case study discussions, exercise demonstrations and an opportunity to develop and present an exercise class.
About this course
This continuing education program will equip Health Professionals with important information to guide the provision of appropriate falls prevention physical activity and exercise programs for older people. Topics to be covered include the social and economic issues of falls, risk factors for falls, physiological consequences of ageing, biomechanical and physiological principles of balance, and effective falls prevention strategies.
In undertaking the program, participants will be trained to develop safe and efficacious community exercise programs for older adults that are designed in a manner to maximise uptake and adherence of those populations who stand to most benefit from exercise. Through structured learning tasks across a number of different learning formats, participants will acquire the knowledge and ability to identify, develop, demonstrate and implement evidence-based exercise interventions designed to enhance physical and functional capacity and prevent falls and fall related injury.
This workshop includes:
- An overview of the issue of falls in older people
- Understanding balance and ageing
- Evidence-based fall prevention interventions
- Developing fall prevention programs
Ticket cost
$120 including tax. Places are limited.
For further information contact Steven Phu: fallsnetwork@neura.edu.au
Presenters
Prof Cathie Sherrington (Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney)
Professor Sherrington leads the 28-person Physical Activity, Ageing and Disability Research Stream within the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health (a partnership between the University of Sydney and the Sydney Local Health District) and is Deputy Director of the Institute. Prof Sherrington’s research focuses on the promotion of physical activity and the prevention of falls in older people and people with chronic disabling conditions. Prof Sherrington is ranked # 3 researcher in the world by Scopus (‘independent living/falls’) and Expertscape (‘accidental falls’) and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and Australian College of Physiotherapists.
Dr Jennie Hewitt (Whiddon Aged Care and The University of Sydney)
Jennifer is a practicing clinician, educator and academic researcher with a passion for delivering best practice and leading research that informs health care policy. She was recently awarded the Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA) National Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Commendation for Better Practice from the Aged Care Quality Agency, and the 2019 Morley Award for the paper most likely to influence policy and practice from the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Her work has been used successfully to advocate for Australian Aged Care Funding Reform. She was invited to give evidence as an expert witness for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in July 2020 on the role of allied health in residential and community aged care. Her evidence was used to form new Medicare item numbers for allied health service provision, and federal funding for group exercise sessions. She is currently working with the Commonwealth Chief Allied Health Officer on an implementation plan to translate this to practice.
Steven Phu (Neuroscience Research Australia, UNSW Medicine)
Steven is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). With over 10 years of experience as an exercise physiologist, Steven’s clinical practice specialises in falls prevention and the management of osteoporosis, sarcopenia and frailty. Steven is also undertaking his PhD at NeuRA where he is implementing a randomised control trial which delivers repeated slip and trip perturbations, to determine whether this program can prevent falls and fit into clinical practice.