Greater Manchester Falls Prevention Awareness Week
Preventing falls over the life course is a priority for us in Greater Manchester. Falls can be a crucial indicator of poor health and wellbeing in mid to later life and prevention interventions can support individuals to age well.
Each and every one of us has a role to play in raising awareness of falls across community, clinical and care settings. In January 2022, we launched the Greater Manchester Falls Collaborative to oversee and deliver the strategic and operational system-level priorities and recommendations for falls prevention, integration, and reconditioning. The Collaborative welcomes anyone who is working in falls, has an interest in falls prevention, or has lived experience of falls.
A week of learning events for falls prevention
As part of Falls Prevention Awareness Week (18 September-22 September 2023), Greater Manchester will be hosting a series of bitesize lunchtime learning sessions from Monday to Friday between 12pm-1pm. The sessions will begin with a series of presentations before attendees are given the opportunity to ask questions.
Please see below the booking links below for each session (Monday-Friday) and a list of what each session contains, as well as the timing of each presentation:
*All sessions will be recorded and shared to the GMCA YouTube channel following the event. There will be a reminder of this at the beginning of each session.*
Monday 18th September
GM Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Bitesize learning session
12:05-12:20pm-The 'Keep on Keep Up' Greater Manchester Roll Out (Dr Emma Stanmore & Dr Amelia Parchment, The University of Manchester)
12:20-12:35pm-Wigan's Falls Prevention Strategy (Dr Christina Heaton, Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Teaching NHS Foundation Trust)
12:35-12:50pm-Remote/Hybrid approaches to Falls Prevention Interventions (Dr Helen Hawley-Hague, The University of Manchester)
BOOK HERE: GM Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Bitesize Learning Session (Monday) Tickets, Mon 18 Sep 2023 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
Tuesday 19th September
GM Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Bitesize learning session
12:05-12:20pm-Digital Technologies to Prevent Falls in People Living with Dementia (Dr Charlotte Eost-Telling, The University of Manchester)
12:20-12:35pm-Falls Prevention Collaboration: Rochdale (Elaine Stott, Your Trust, Rochdale)
12:35-12:50pm-Effectiveness of Dance Interventions of Falls Prevention in Older Adults (Dr Kimberly Green, The University of Manchester)
Wednesday 20th September
GM Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Bitesize learning session
12:05-12:20pm-Strength and Balance in Care Homes Project (Niall Bradley, Age UK Bolton)
12:20-12:35-Fear of Falling (Prof Chris Todd & Dr Jodi Ventre, The University of Manchester)
12:35-12:50pm-Recording: FAIR games for timely falls prevention in people with Parkinson’s (Recording) (Dr Chesney Craig, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Thursday 21st September
GM Falls Collaborative: Community of Learning, Sharing and Problem Solving
As part of the Greater Manchester Falls Collaborative, we have committed to the development of a 'Community of Learning, Sharing, and Problem Solving (CoLSP)'.
What's the purpose?
- To bring together a collective with a shared purpose.
- To develop a mechanism for effective sharing, including workshops, action learning sets, updates, conferences, etc.
- Diverse and unrestricted membership to enable collaboration to feed into and across priority areas.
- Showcasing and celebrating what works effectively across Greater Manchester within communities and neighbourhoods.
This initial session will be to play back what we have heard key stakeholders across the system would want from a CoLSP. We will also be looking to prioritise each area to start to develop a programme of how we can deliver on this. Please do come along and share with your colleagues from your locality/organisation, or with anyone who this might be of interest to!
Thursday 21st September
GM Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Bitesize learning session
12:05-12:20pm-The Falls Exercise Implementation (FLEXI) Study–Emerging Insight from Greater Manchester (Dr Jodi Ventre, The University of Manchester)
12:20-12:35pm-The Northwest Ambulance Service (Sara Harris, The Northwest Ambulance Service)
12:35-12:50pm-Falls Prevention Project: City Wide (Megan Brown, Manchester City Council)
Friday 22nd September
GM Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Bitesize learning session
12:05-12:20pm-Recording: The World Falls Guidelines (Prof Chris Todd, The University of Manchester)
12:20-12:35pm-Medicines and Falls (Ðula Alićehajić-Bečić, Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust)
12:35-12:50pm- Recording: Move More/GM Active initiatives: Physical Activity & Long-term Health Conditions (Kristen Hollands, Salford University)
You will need to register for each session individually following the booking links above. You will receive a direct email following this containing the Microsoft Teams link for the session, along with a privacy notice in relation to data collection.
For more information on the week, including details of how to register for the bitesize lunchtime learning sessions, please email bethany.mitchell@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk