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. All tickets include access to recorded video presentations (available following the forum).
Final program: here
Plenary Presentations
Pam Albany Presentation – Preventing falls in care homes. Slides
Prof Pip Logan – Professor of Rehabilitation Research and Occupational Therapist at the University of Nottingham and the University of Queensland
Preventing falls in nursing homes: Australian perspectives. Slides
Dr Rik Dawson – Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health. President, Australian Physiotherapy Association
Dementia prevention, practical risk reduction. Slides
Prof Ruth Peters – Program Lead for Dementia, Global Brain Health Initiative, The George Institute for Global Health
Working with people from CALD communities to reduce falls. Slides
Prof Cathy Said – Physiotherapist and Professor Physiotherapy, Western Health & The University of Melbourne
Reactive balance training: from research into practice.
Dr Yoshiro Okubo – Research Fellow – Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia
Research Update. Slides
Prof Kim Delbaere – Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA and Director of Innovation & Translation at the Falls, Balance & Injury Research Centre
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