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This event is intended for all multidisciplinary healthcare professionals working with older people who have undergone a fall, or are at risk of falling. Building upon the past conferences in Malaysia and Australia the two days will include keynote presentations from experts in the field, workshops and plenary sessions demonstrating best practice approaches available.
2024 25th International Conference on Falls and Postural Stability Meeting
2024 Wales Autumn Meeting
Often a key component of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in primary care, this guide examines step-by-step how to carry out a multifactorial risk assessment for falls.
This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people in acute and community settings in training roles.
2024 Movement Disorders meeting covering older people's healthcare
This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people who have experienced major trauma.
Join us in Northern Ireland for a joint meeting with the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Old Age.
This document aims to support prescribing decisions for older people with moderate to severe frailty. This information can be incorporated into shared decision-making conversations. It provides more lenient therapeutic targets than standard guidelines that better balance potential benefits and harms of medicines in this population.
These guidelines were developed by the World Falls Task Force, which assembled 96 multidisciplinary experts from 39 countries across 5 continents, with representation from 36 scientific and academic societies, including the BGS.
This event is intended all multidisciplinary healthcare professionals working with older people in falls prevention and falls treatment.
This article lays out UK Health Security Agency’s guidance on how healthcare professionals can best prepare for cold weather and how to look after older adults when temperatures drop below freezing.
This SIG acts as a focus for multidisciplinary interest and expertise on fall prevention and bone health.
What the BGS Falls and Bone Health SIG has been up to and a look ahead to the 2025 conference.
Established in 2017, this Special Interest Group deals with the disorders that may arise in the older person with anaemia.
Autumn - or Fall, if you prefer - is often a time that people dread, with decreasing daylight and cooler days. I, on the other hand, look forward to it. The year’s apples, plums and brambles are ready to be picked and made into wonderfully comforting crumbles
Multiple hospital organisational factors are associated with adverse patient outcomes post hip fracture in England and Wales: the REDUCE record-linkage cohort study.
Falls Prevention Awareness week is a national health campaign to raise awareness of falls health and injury prevention. Across the UK there will be an abundance of seminars, conferences and many discussions will be had.
A smartphone app has been shown by researchers to improve the diagnosis of vertebral fractures by helping medical professionals to make referral decisions based on how people are experiencing back pain.