Assessment, Prevention and Management of Falls

On completion of this course you should be able to:

Critically evaluate the epidemiology of falls in older people considering socio-economic, political and personal consequences of falls and fall related injuries.
Critically review the issues pertinent to effective assessment, prevention and management of falls in older people.
Undertake analysis and critical evaluation of current service provision for those at risk of falls or who have fallen.
Evaluate and justify the requirements of a falls service.

This course is aimed at all health and social care professionals. You must hold a professional health care qualification and be eligible to register with the relevant professional board. It’s a broad introductory module into the subject of falls management therefore may be studied by you if you are a specialist health and social care professional (older people, metabolic bone, rheumatology, etc) or if the management of falls forms a part of your general day to day role.

If you don’t hold a BA/BSc qualification you should be a health care professional and have a minimum of two years clinical experience in osteoporosis, DXA, falls.