Upcoming Events
National Falls Prevention Summit
19th-20th October 2009, Brisbane, Hilton
Keynote presenters include: Professor Keith Hill, Dr Nancye Peel, A/Prof Lindy Clemson,A/Prof Jacqueline Close, Dr Terry Haines, Dr Clare Bradley and others.
Early Bird Registration closes 14th August 2009
GAIT 2010 Every Step Counts
February 26-28 2010, Washington D.C., USA
The 3rd international Congress on Gait & Mental Function
The 4th Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society (ANZFPS) conference
21-23 November 2010, Dunedin, New Zealand
The 4th Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society (ANZFPS) conference will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, November 21-23, 2010.
Past Events
2009 NSW Falls Prevention Network Meeting
The meeting was held on Wednesday 17th June and included almost 200 participants, from hospitals, community services, residential aged care facilities, local government and the community. A full report with abstracts is available from page 2. Copies of the presentations are available to download below.
- Final Program - PDF ~468kb
Conference and Meeting Presentations
Plenary Session 1
- Professor Kaarin Anstey 'Psychological Factors that influence falls risk: implications for prevention' - PDF ~791kb
- A/Professor Lindy Clemson 'Enabling Older People to Prevent Falls' - PDF ~1.30mb
- Dr John Ward 'Falls Injury prevention in RACF: A three year randomised controlled trial' - PDF ~481kb
Plenary Session 2
- Professor Stephen Lord "Evidence based best practice in falls prevention three recent initiatives - PDF ~655kb
- Ms Lorraine Lovitt 'NSW Falls Prevention Program' - PDF ~1.38mb
Concurrent Sessions
Hospital
- Dr Anne Tiedemann 'Screening for falls risk in the ED - study outline and progress' - PDF ~2.39mb
- Ms Kathy Bullen ' Phone follow-up of fallers presenting to the Emergency Department (ED)' - PDF ~223kb
- Ms Julia Poole 'Delirium and falls in acute care' - PDF ~1.41mb
Community
- Ms Christine Burrows 'Falls Prevention where Community Matters.... "It starts with you!" - PDF ~1.25mb
- Ms Melanie Kingsland 'Building Capacity for Sustainable Physical Activity Programs' - PDF ~371kb
- Ms Minh Pham 'Bold and Balance: preventing falls in the CALD population of and Aged Day Care Centre' - PDF ~1.0mb
Residential Aged Care
- Ms Mandy Harden 'Falls Injury Prevention in Residential Aged Care: How can we translate strategies into effectiveness' - PDF ~660kb
- Ms Sharon Butler 'The Better Balance Program - A falls prevention initiative at Anglican Retirement Villages' - PDF ~392kb
- Ms Kate Perry, Jim McMillan & Rey Baluyot 'Twilight Aged Care Falls Minimisation and Minimisation of Harm from Injury (DVD presentation) - Watch the presentation on YouTube. Visit the Twilight website
Greater Western AHS Falls Prevention Video Conference March 2009
Session 1
- Professor Clifford Hughes, CEO, Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC), Welcome & Introduction
- Lorraine Lovitt, Leader NSW Falls Program, CEC, NSW Falls Prevention Program
- Professor Stephen Lord, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Evidence Based Best Practice
- Marilyn Lyford, the George Institute for International Health, Bourke Safety Project
Session 2
- A/Professor Susan Kurrle, Geriatrician, Northern Sydney Central Coast AHS, Medications and Falls
- Kim Macrae, iKi Magic, iKi Magic
- Lyndal O’Leary, Area Manager Health Promotion, Greater Western AHS, Community Exercise Leaders (CEL) Program
- Lyndall Morris, Patient Safety & Clinical Quality, Remote Cluster, Greater Western AHS, Falls Risk Assessment Tool Score Compliance
- Gail Weekes, Diversional Therapist, Grenfell MPS, Implementing CEL in Aged Care
Session 3
- Tracey Drabsch, Senior Physiotherapist, Orange Base Hospital, Hip Hop Exercise Program
- Rosemary Stapleton, Health Promotion Greater Western AHS, Tai Chi in GWAHS
- Reports from Each site
Presentations from this Video conference are available on CD from:-
Jacaline Kelly
Area Falls Coordinator, Greater Western AHS
Jacaline.Kelly@gwahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Ph: 02 6363 8017