Thank you to everyone who made our first Falls Awareness Week webinar series such a success!
In particular, thank you to Professor Brian Dolan, Dr Amit Arora, Paul Mills, Toby Elmers (PhD) and Dr Emma Stanmore for such useful and informative talks, but also to all of you that managed to attend and ask such brilliant questions. We were delighted to see nearly 1,200 of you attend the four sessions. However, if you were not able to make it or just want to revisit some of the sessions, the recordings are available below.
20 September 2022 – Walking Stick Health Check Week
Paul Mills, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
21 September 2022 – Deconditioning vs ‘Reconditioning’
Professor Brian Dolan, Health Service 360 #EndPJParalysis, and Dr Amit Arora, Consultant Geriatrician at University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke on Trent
22 September 2022 – Fear of Falling: Consequences for Balance and Falls
Toby Ellmers (PhD), Imperial College London
23 September 2022 – Keep On Keep Up (KOKU): The Importance of Strength and Balance to Combat Deconditioning
Dr Emma Stanmore, Healthy Ageing Research Group Lead and Member of Digital Health Research Groups, University of Manchester
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