Register now to attend the #FallsForum25 – Friday, 2nd May 2025
The NSW Fall Prevention & Healthy Ageing Network Annual Forum provides a fantastic opportunity to come together and learn about the latest on fall prevention and healthy ageing. Listen to experts in their field provide an overview of the latest research, advocacy, quality improvement and fall prevention in residential aged care and hospital, and community program initiatives.
This forum also provides a fabulous opportunity to network, exchange ideas and learn from each other.
Registration is now open for general admission and virtual tickets. All tickets include access to recorded video presentations (available following the forum).
Draft program: here
Plenary Presenters
Prof Pip Logan – Preventing falls in care homes
Professor of Rehabilitation Research and Occupational Therapist at the University of Nottingham and the University of Queensland
Prof Cathy Said – Working with people from CALD communities to reduce falls
Physiotherapist and Professor Physiotherapy, Western Health & The University of Melbourne
One in three Australians over 65 years of age were born overseas, and most were born in a non-English speaking country. People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities face barriers to accessing healthcare and are under-represented in research, which exacerbates inequity. We are overseeing a collaborative research program focused on supporting older people from CALD communities to engage in regular exercise to reduce falls risk. Together with older people from Italian, Arabic speaking and Chinese communities, we have developed the MOVE Together: Reduce Falls program and we are currently exploring the implementability of the program via a pilot RCT.
Prof Ruth Peters – Dementia prevention, practical risk reduction
Program Lead for Dementia, Global Brain Health Initiative, The George Institute for Global Health
The evidence for dementia risk reduction continues to grow. Two of the most successful strategies are blood pressure lowering with antihypertensive medication, and taking a multidomain approach where several modifiable and lifestyle risk factors are tackled at the same time. This talk will focus on practical risk reduction approaches. In particular, the evidence for a novel multidomain approach designed to be integrated into community settings with the potential to tackle dementia risk alongside reducing frailty and even falls risks.
Dr Rik Dawson – Preventing falls in nursing homes: Australian perspectives
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health. President, Australian Physiotherapy Association
Dr Yoshiro Okubo – Reactive balance training: from research into practice
Research Fellow – Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia
Prof Kim Delbaere – Research Update
Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA and Director of Innovation & Translation at the Falls, Balance & Injury Research Centre
To revisit the 2024 Annual Forum, click here.