This course teaches evidence-based fall prevention on the basis of the national expert standard: assessing the risk of falling, addressing intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors, making the environment safe, promoting strength, balance and mobility, using aids and measures sensibly, overcoming fear of falling, avoiding freedom-restricting measures (FEM) and acting professionally after a fall – always with the aim of preserving safety AND freedom of movement.
Course objectives:
- Understand falls, their frequency and serious consequences
- Recognise and assess risks of falling (intrinsic/extrinsic)
- Make the environment safe (without confining)
- Promote strength, balance and mobility
- Use aids and measures sensibly, avoid FEM
- Act professionally after a fall and document it
Self-study without supervision, assignments or assessment of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.