NSW Fall Prevention and Healthy Ageing Network Annual Forum 2025

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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.

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