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Falls are preventable, and there are many strategies that local governments can implement to prevent falls in older adult community members.
Join Injury Matters on Tuesday, 24 June 10:00 am (AWST) for the "Preventing Falls and Building Communities: A Local Government Approach" webinar
Cost: FREE
Older adults who have impaired balance are at great risk of falling. Injury Matters' Stay On Your Feet® program are hosting a half day workshop, aimed at exercise and fitness professionals who work with older adults, focusing on the importance of balance in falls prevention.
Cost: $30 (including GST)
Join Injury Matters, with guest speaker Jingyi Chen from the University of Western Australia, for the “Shared Vision: Falls Prevention for Community Eye Health Practitioners” webinar on Tuesday, 8 July 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (AWST) where we will explore the role eye care practitioners have in falls prevention among older adults, the importance of access to rural eye care and referral pathways and opportunities for collaboration between eye care practitioners.
The Stay On Your Feet® team is passionate about helping you live your best life through providing information on falls prevention and healthy, active ageing. Your health, independence, and quality...
This informative webinar will introduce the newly released Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines (2025), developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. These comprehensive, evidence-based guidelines provide best practice recommendations for preventing falls in hospitals, residential aged care, and community care settings.
The Stay On Your Feet® team is passionate about helping you live your best life through providing information on falls prevention and healthy, active ageing. Your health, independence, and quality...
Each year in Western Australia, thousands of people are impacted by road trauma. Responding or first on scene at a car crash, losing family and friends, dealing with injuries, caring...
Hosted in partnership between Injury Matters and WANADA, this informative webinar will increase your understanding of what support services are available for people who are at risk of harm from...
Healthy Streets is an evidence-based approach to designing and managing streets that support health, sustainability, fairness and community wellbeing. Poorly designed streets and built environments can increase the risk of many types of injury, including falls, transport injuries, violence and alcohol- related injuries. Join Injury Matters and Lucy Saunders from Healthy Streets on Thursday, 28 August, for the "Creating Safer Communities: A Healthy Streets Approach to Preventing Injury" workshop.
Cost: $25
The Injury Matters team is passionate about helping you live your best life through providing information on falls prevention and healthy, active ageing through our Stay On Your Feet® program....
The Otago Exercise Program is an evidence-based home-based balance and strength falls prevention program shown to be effective in reducing the number of falls and falls-related injuries. Learning to deliver this exercise program is a great way to help prevent your clients from having a fall. Join Injury Matters on 25 September 2025 for the “Applying the Otago Falls Prevention Program in Practice” workshop and acquire the skills and confidence to deliver the Otago program yourself.
Cost: $50
Unfortunately, this event is now sold out. If you would like to be kept informed about when the next workshop is, please email [email protected], and you will be added to our EOI.
The Injury Matters team is passionate about helping you live your best life through providing information on falls prevention and healthy, active ageing through our Stay On Your Feet® program....
