Health and Social Care Training Resources:

1) Falls Awareness
2) Falls Prevention Awareness
3) Introduction to Falls (Care Homes)

Presentation 1 - Falls Awareness (66 slides) – Slide Titles:

Consequences of falls
Other consequences
What is a fall?
Types of fall
Why do people fall?
Falls – the most common adverse incident
Risk management
How people stay upright
Needed to stay upright
What the human body uses to stay upright
Muscles and joints
Eyes
Ears
Proprioception
Vasoactive responses
Neural processing
Remaining upright
Healthy ageing
Ageing
People at greatest risk
Effects of illness
Stroke
Parkinson’s disease
Arthritis
Diabetes
Cardiac problems
Dementia
Bladder problems
Other risk factors
Medicines
Summary
References

Presentation 2 - Falls Prevention (34 slides) – Slide Titles:

NICE Guidelines
Risk identification
Person centred care
Risk assessment
Environmental risk assessment
Section header - risk assessment special note
A note about orthostatic hypotension
Risk assessment records
Interventions
Interventions (after a fall)
NICE
Interventions (after a fall)
Interventions
Accident book and RIDDOR
The care plan
Falls risk scores
NICE Guidelines (homecare and residential)
NICE Guidelines (hospitals)
NICE Guidelines (tests of multifactorial assessments)
NICE Guidelines (multifactorial interventions)
NICE Guidelines (tests of balance and gait)
NICE Guidelines (exercise - extended care settings)
Summary
References

Presentation 3 - Introduction to Falls Awareness for Care settings (13 slides) – Slide Titles:

Aims/Objectives
Introduction
Consequences of Falls
What can be done?
Triggers
Statistics
People with dementia
Falls
Quality of life
Care staff
Summary
References

Word Documents (Handouts)

Handout (to follow presentation 1)
Handout (to follow presentation 2)
Handout (to follow presentation 3)

ONE Written end of session assessment (for presentation 1)