Web-streaming Recordings
Plenary 1
Plenary 2
Presentations
Welcome
Plenary Session 1
Balancing acts – Gaps and opportunities for falls prevention in the 2020s (PDF, 4.3MB)
Professor Keith Hill, Head of School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health Science, Curtin University, Perth
Fall prevention in older people: an update of the evidence (PDF, 2.2MB)
Professor Stephen Lord, Senior Principal Research Fellow and Director, Falls Balance and Injury Research Centre, NeuRA, Sydney
Plenary Session 2
The Standing Tall RCT results: using mobile technology to deliver an unsupervised balance exercise program
Associate Professor Kim Delbaere, Principal Research Scientist, Director, Innovation and Translation, Falls Balance and Injury Research Centre, NeuRA, Sydney
Falls prevention in dementia (PDF, 3.7MB)
Dr Morag Taylor, NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow, Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, NeuRA, Sydney
Exercise for falls prevention in residential aged care: evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness outcomes from the SUNBEAM trial (PDF, 2.7MB)
Dr Jennie Hewitt, Clinical Education Coordinator, Centre for Rural Health, Murwillumbah
Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation
Workshop Presentations
A. Leading better value Care Falls in Hospital
Facilitators: Mr Malcolm Green, Senior Manager Adult Patient Safety Program, and Ms Ingrid Hutchinson, Project Officer, NSW Falls Prevention Program, CEC
- Leading Better Value care – reducing harm from falls in hospital (PDF, 3.04MB)
- MNC LHD – Leading Better Value Care (PDF, 6MB)
- Sydney LHD – Storyboard on improved healthcare journey (PDF, 1.79MB)
B. Exercise Interventions
Facilitators: Dr Daina Sturnieks, Senior Research Scientist, FBIRC, NeuRA and Conjoint lecturer, UNSW and Dr Jennie Hewitt, Clinical Education Coordinator, Centre for Rural Health, Murwillumbah
Exercise Workshop presentation
Exercise Workshop Video 1 – Introduction and Otago
Exercise Workshop Video 2 – Tai Chi
Exercise Workshop Video 3 – Group Exercise
C. Mental Health and Falls Prevention
Facilitators: Ms Mandy Meehan, Team Leader, Ryde Older people’s Mental Health Service (OPMHS) and Ms Emma Underwood, CNC, OPMHS, NSLHD-MHDA
- Older people, mental health and falls (PDF, 2MB)
- Implementing Post Fall Huddles while changing a culture towards Falls Prevention (PDF, 3.42MB)
- We Will Catch You! Mental Health Falls Prevention Program (PDF, 763MB)
- Stepping On with recovery: An update (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Case Study (PDF, 1.3MB)