TheHill brought together health and social care organisations to identify the key clinical challenges faced in falls prevention and to share best practice across the industry.
The 90-minute workshop which was held in May, was designed to foster a dynamic discussion among healthcare professionals who support patients at risk of falls. Participants were given the opportunity to highlight their real-world clinical challenges and take part in discussions to help shape effective patient centred innovations.
Key challenges that were highlighted included staffing levels across care providers, the challenges of distinguishing between correlation and causation when it comes to postural drops and falls and comorbidities and lifestyle choices.
The workshop also highlighted areas of best practice, including understanding and recognising patient behaviour and to accurately predict individuals at higher risk of falling, to enable earlier interventions and personalised fall prevention strategies, and to develop person centred support plans and personalised care plans with input from families and friends, to understand routines and behaviours of patients.
A briefing note has been produced that highlights these areas in more detail, including areas for improvement & solutions, alongside key facts and figures.
TheHill collaborated with the Health Research Centre (HRC) to run the workshop and was a collaboration between the Digital theme, co-led by TheHill’s Director Megan Morys-Carter, and the Care Homes and Care in the Home theme led by Adam Gordon, Professor of the Care of Older People at the Academic Centre for Healthy Aging.