Citation

Lord SR, Delbaere K, Tiedemann A, Smith ST, Sturnieks DL. N. S. W. Public Health Bull. 2011; 22(3-4): 84-87.

Affiliation

Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, The University of New South Wales.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, New South Wales Health Department)

DOI

10.1071/NB10058

PMID

21632005

Abstract

Preventing falls and fall-related injuries among older people is an urgent public health challenge. This paper provides an overview of the background to and research planned for a 5-year National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Grant on implementing falls prevention research findings into policy and practice. This program represents a partnership between key Australian falls prevention researchers, policy makers and information technology companies which aims to: (1) fill gaps in evidence relating to the prevention of falls in older people, involving new research studies of risk factor assessment and interventions for falls prevention; (2) translate evidence into policy and practice, examining the usefulness of new risk-identification tools in clinical practice; and (3) disseminate evidence to health professionals working with older people, via presentations, new evidence-based guidelines, improved resources and learning tools, to improve the workforce capacity to prevent falls and associated injuries in the future.

Language: en