Opening Remarks & Conference Chair

Falls prevention at ward level: Avoiding Falls Level of Observation Assessment Tool (AFLOAT)

Dr Paul McElwaine, Geriatrician, Tallaght University Hospital

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Falls prevention at ward level: Avoiding Falls Level of Observation

Assessment Tool (AFLOAT)

Dr David Richardson & David Dawson, Consultant Physician/Geriatrician at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Legal Principles surrounding slips, trips and falls

• The Legal responsibilities of the Healthcare Provider
• The legal definition of a fall?
• Statutory Duties and Preventative Measures to take
• Steps to be taken if a fall occurs – limiting legal liability
• What happens when legal action is taken
• Updated Case Law

Rosalynn McVeigh, Barrister-at-Law, Law Library

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Medication management to reduce falls

• Understanding which medications contribute to falls and syncope
• Assessing medications within falls services and clinics
• Understanding when falls is a side effect of medication

Dr Paul McElwaine, Geriatrician, Tallaght University Hospital

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Acute Assessment following a fall - a case study

Dr.Rosa McNamara, Emergency Medicine Consultant, St. Vincent’s University Hospital

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Falls in people with intellectual disabilities (ID)

Renjith Joseph, Ability West

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Undertaking a systems analysis based of a patient/service user fall

• Step by step guide to carrying out a systems analysis following a fall incident
• Identifying the key causal factors and contributory factors leading to falls
• Secondary prevention: ensuring that preventative measures occur to prevent future falls
• Systems Analysis Falls in care delivery settings.

John McElhinney, Group Quality & Patient Safety Manager, Saolta University Health Care Group

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Understanding the fall event

• Overview of risk factors
• FOF defined
• Comparing FOF among adults with ID and the general population
• Results from the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA)

Multidisciplinary assessment and assessment tools

• How to identify the root cause and contributing factors of a fall
• Multi factorial falls risk assessment including blood pressure and medications
• Good practice to manage underlying health issues which increase risk

A practical approach to root cause analysis – examining a fall through the ABC methods

• Step by step guide to carrying out an RCA for falls
• Identifying the problems/reasons leading to a fall
• Preventing future falls, practical implementation.

Dr Sinead Foran, Lecturer, Department of Nursing and Health Care, Waterford Institute of Technology

Dr Eilish Burke Ussher Asst. Professor in Ageing and Intellectual Disability, Associate Director of the Trinity Center for Ageing and Intellectual Disability

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Falls, Delirium and Reducing harm from inpatient falls

• Delirium and inpatient falls prevention
• How delirium is preventable
• Key Steps to prevent delirium
• Ensuring preventable interventions are tailored to the individual
• Clinical assessments for clinical factors contributing to delirium

Reducing harm from inpatient falls

• Reviewing and improving practice procedures
• Reducing the occurrence of secondary falls
• Reducing hip fractures and impact of harm from inpatient falls

Louise Brent, Irish Hip Fracture Database & Major Trauma Audit Manager, National Office of Clinical Audit

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