Injury Matters

An Appetite for Change: Preventing Falls in Older Adults
2021-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Perth) | RPH Research Foundation, 50 Murray Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Join Injury Matters this National Nutrition Week for the “An appetite for change: Preventing falls in older adults” lunch and learn seminar. Guest presenter Dr Marc Sim, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, will discuss recent evidence around nutrition and falls risk among older adults and will explore:

The relationship between dietary intake and falls risk.
Which nutrients should older adults be incorporating into their diet?
Dietary knowledge among the older adult population
Screening for nutritional deficiencies in older adults
Nutrition-based strategies following diagnosis of sarcopenia

Attendees may choose to attend in-person at the RPH Research Foundation or online via Zoom (please select the appropriate ticket)
In-person attendees will be provided lunch.
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Dementia Enabling Environments for Falls Prevention
2021-09-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Persons with dementia are two to three times more likely to fall compared to persons without dementia. Therefore, older adults with dementia can be considered a high-risk group for falls. An understanding of risk factors for falls among this population is required so that health care professionals can develop effective falls prevention strategies to reduce the negative impact of falls on an individual’s quality of life as well as the economic burden of treating falls in their workplace/clinical setting.
Note: This webinar is 10:00 – 11:00am AWST Perth time.
Join Injury Matters for the Dementia Enabling Environments for Falls Prevention webinar during Dementia Action Week as Nick Seemann, the Senior Environment Consultant at Dementia Training Australia, joins us to discuss the dementia enabling environments project.
This webinar training aims to give you:

Increased knowledge of dementia and its effect on fall risk
Increased awareness of environmental barriers and supports the movement for people living with dementia.
Increased confidence to identify falls risks created by environments for people living with dementia.
Increased confidence to help create supportive environments for people living with dementia.

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Falls Prevention and Neurological Conditions Workshop
2021-08-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Bendat Parent & Community Centre, 36 Dodd Street, Wembley, WA, 6014, Australia
Join Injury Matters for the “Falls Prevention and Neurological Conditions Workshop”. Presented by Anita Rattray, Physiotherapist and Lisa Barry, Occupational Therapist at Parkinson’s Clinic, Osborne Park Hospital. The workshop will provide participants with knowledge of common neurological conditions which increase falls risk as well as strategies for reducing falls risk.
This workshop aims to:

Increase knowledge and understanding of common neurological conditions and their impact on falls risk.
Increase knowledge of strategies for preventing falls in people with neurological conditions.
Increase understanding of referral pathways for relevant services.
Increase knowledge of available resources to support clinical practice.

Refreshments provided.
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Emerging Issues in Alcohol Policy Webinar
2021-06-29 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
Join Injury Matters and the Cancer Council WA as we explore the emerging issues in alcohol policy and what needs to be achieved in alcohol policy in the next 3 years.
Cancer Council WA’s Alcohol Policy and Research Coordinator’s, Danica Keric and Hannah Pierce, will discuss alcohol policy priority areas, why they matter, what organisations can do to progress action, and how we can work together to create action.
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Understanding family carers falls concern and their management of older adults falls risks at home Webinar
2021-06-10 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
With Western Australia’s ageing population, family carers are increasingly becoming essential support in falls prevention and care delivery for older adults living in the community. Carers’ concerns for older adults’ falls risk, can have a severe impact on the psychological well-being and ability of family carers to prevent falls. Falls prevention programs that include family carers contribute to significant improvement in falls risk awareness and knowledge in carers and their care recipients. However, maladaptive caring strategies adopted by carers could lead to dependence and increasing risk of falling among older adults at home.
Join Injury Matters for the ‘Understanding family carers fall concern and their management of older adults fall risks at home webinar’. A presentation will be provided by Marcus Ang, Edith Cowan University who will discuss issues that contribute to concerns of family carers regarding risk of falling and the strategies they use to prevent older adults from falling at home.

Scooter-related Injuries Webinar
2021-06-03 10:00 - 11:00 | WA
Transport injuries are a leading cause of hospitalisations and fatalities in Western Australia. The variety in our transport routes, demographics and preference for physical activity results in the use of differing transportation devices.
Join Injury Matters and the Australasian Injury Prevention Network for the ‘Scooter Safety Webinar’. This webinar will focus on some of these high-risk transportation devices by exploring the incidence of injury due to e-scooter and mobility scooter use. Special guests and experts in the space, Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith and Professor Kristen Vallmuur will join us to share their expertise.
Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith heads the Injury Prevention Research Unit at Monash University’s Department of Forensic Medicine. Joan has worked to reduce the incidence of mobility scooter-related injuries, with special interest in policy to improve mobility scooter safety.
Professor Kirsten Vallmuur is the Chair of Trauma Surveillance and Data Analytics in the School of Public Health and Social Work at the Queensland University of Technology. Kirsten has conducted extensive research into the safety of e-scooters as they emerge as a common means of transportation.
This webinar will provide participants with knowledge of:

The incidence of injury due to e-scooters.
The incidence of injury due to mobility scooters.
The key risk factors associated with using scooters.
Key prevention initiatives required to reduce the incidence of injury among scooter users.

This webinar is delivered by Injury Matters via the Know Injury program. Know Injury, funded through the WA Department of Health, is a state-wide program aimed at preventing injury in WA.

Injury Prevention Network
2021-02-05 10:00 - 11:30 | WA
Program : Injury Matters
Type : Forum
Time : During working hours(10:00 am – 11:30 am)
Location : Injury Matters or via Zoom
Region : Metropolitan
The Injury Prevention Network provides practitioners across WA with an opportunity to connect with each other to share learnings and solutions in injury prevention, community safety and recovery.
