Falls and injury prevention: Outcomes from two large studies in the UK
The Centre for Health Services Research and the Queensland Dementia, Ageing, and Frailty Clinical Network present a Geriatric Medicine Seminar Series titled: 'Falls and injury prevention: Outcomes from two large studies in the UK' presented by Professor Pip Logan. Professor Logan presented the results from two large programs of work. FinCH, £2.5m, has led to an intervention that has reduced falls in care homes by 43%, and PRAISED (£3.5m), which is aiming to increase activity in people with early-stage dementia to prevent injury and deterioration later.
Speaker
Professor Pip Logan
An academic occupational therapist based in Nottingham, UK.
Her research is mainly concerned with health services rehabilitation, with particular emphasis on the community. She is an expert in leading randomised controlled trials of rehabilitation services and individual techniques.
For example, she has recently completed a study that compared a new outdoor mobility intervention for people with stroke against the routine therapy. She also works clinically for Nottingham City Care Partnership (NHS) in the community rehabilitation team and in the Acute Hospital for the Health Care of the Elderly Directorate.
Professor Logan has received two NIHR fellowships, and is the Chief Investigator for a £1.8m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HTA research grant which is exploring falls in care homes.
About Geriatric Medicine Seminar Series
Geriatric Medicine Seminar Series
UQ Centre for Health Services Research and the Queensland Dementia, Ageing, and Frailty Clinical Network present a seminar series featuring researchers from medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy, and psychology as well as biomedical engineering, health economics, data analytics, health informatics with a focus on ageing and geriatric medicine.
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