{"id":1673,"date":"2015-08-28T23:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T22:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2015-08-28T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T22:34:20","slug":"dissemination-and-implementation-of-best-practice-in-falls-prevention-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2015\/08\/28\/dissemination-and-implementation-of-best-practice-in-falls-prevention-across-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissemination and implementation of best practice in falls prevention across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As injury prevention researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, we are all aware that falls are an important public health issue. Today I wanted to profile a novel approach to preventing falls. Dr Helen Hawley-Hague of the University of Manchester is the Scientific Coordinator of ProFouND, <a href=\"http:\/\/profound.eu.com\/\">the Prevention of Falls Network for Dissemination<\/a>,\u00a0and she has shared with me some information regarding this innovative injury prevention approach.<\/p>\n<p>ProFouND is a\u00a0European Commission-funded initiative dedicated to bring about the dissemination and implementation of best practice in falls prevention across Europe. ProFouND comprises 21 partners from 12 countries, with a further 10 associate members. ProFouND aims to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>influence policy to increase awareness of falls and innovative prevention programmes among health and social care authorities, the commercial sector, NGOs and the general public,<\/li>\n<li>ultimately increasing the delivery of evidence-based practice in falls prevention and<\/li>\n<li>therefore reducing the numbers of falls and injurious falls experienced by older adults across Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ProFouND contributes to the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA), with the ultimate objective of adding an average of two active healthy life years to the lives of European citizens by 2020. ProFouND\u2019s objective is to embed evidence-based fall prevention programmes for elderly people at risk of falls using novel ICT solutions in at least 10 countries\/15 EU regions by the end of 2015, thus to reduce falls incidence in those regions by 2020. The following resources are available to support falls injury prevention:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ProFouND Falls Prevention App (PFNApp), accessible for registered health care practitioners and available in multiple languages;<\/li>\n<li>Cascade training using face-to-face and e-learning approaches and available in multiple languages; and<\/li>\n<li>A free resources library, in addition to information regarding upcoming conferences, and other recent research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Having seen the ramifications of falls in my own family, with my elderly grandmother fracturing both her pelvis and vertebrae\u00a0in one fall, this program definitely seems like a step in the right direction!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As injury prevention researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, we are all aware that falls are an important public health issue. Today I wanted to profile a novel approach to preventing falls. 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