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2023-09-28 Injury Prevention Webinar Older Adult Fall Prevention Programs: From a National to a Local Level
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ATS CEU:1.0
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The American Trauma Society presented a webinar on September 28, 2023 at 11:30am - 12:30pm ET
Injury Prevention Webinar | Older Adult Fall Prevention Programs: From a National to a Local Level
September is Older Adult Fall Prevention Awareness Month and we are ready to celebrate by showcasing some great work that is being done to support the older adults in our communities. On a national level we have the National Council on Aging advocating for funding and providing fall prevention resources and materials. One hospital in New York has taken on the ACL grant for the state and has seen great success in doing so. Another hospital in Colorado has implemented a new program in their community called AIM, or Aging with Independence and Mobility, to provide an evidence-informed approach to fall prevention allowing participants with time and transportation barriers to participate. Join us as we hear the success stories from a national to local level.
Presenters:
Kathleen A. Cameron, BS Pharm, MPH has over 30 years of experience in the health care and gerontology fields as a pharmacist, researcher, and program director focusing on health promotion and disease prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, mental health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Ms. Cameron is Senior Director at the National Council on Aging (NCOA) where she serves as subject matter expert on a variety of health-related topics, including mental health and aging, and oversees the U.S. Administration on Aging-funded National Falls Prevention and Chronic Disease Self-Management Resource Centers, and the National Institute of Senior Centers. Her work supports policy and advocacy efforts at NCOA to promote systems change and improve health care and social service delivery for older adults. Ms. Cameron is currently the Chair of the National Coalition on Mental Health and Aging. Ms. Cameron was previously with JBS International as director of a SAMHSA-funded technical assistance center aimed at educating the aging network, mental health providers, and policy makers about behavioral health challenges and solutions older adults. She has also held positions at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation in the 2000s and the National Council on Aging in the late 1990s. Ms. Cameron received her BS degree in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and her Master of Public Health degree from Yale University.
Kristi Ladowski has over 10 years' experience coordinating health promotion programs, leading the efforts that earned a 2020 Safe States Program Award. She had successfully led her Level 1 Trauma Center’s Injury Prevention Program through two American College of Surgeons verification processes. Kristi is a co-PI 2022-2025 ACL 2022 Empowering Communities to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program grant, working to increase capacity and sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs across Long Island and New York state. She is also working on her PhD dissertation focusing on the dissemination and implementation of falls prevention interventions.
Brittany M. Dillahunty, PT, DPT, GCS, CSRS graduated with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas, in 2013. She has been a physical therapist for UCHealth for the past ten years. During that time, she has practiced throughout the continuum of care and has obtained specialist certifications in geriatric physical therapy and stroke and vestibular rehabilitation. Brittany has a passion for working with older adults and has been an instructor for Stepping On, an evidence-based, fall prevention program since 2016. In 2020, Brittany developed the exercise prescription for the virtual fall prevention program, Aging with Independence and Mobility (AIM). She has served as an AIM instructor since February 2021, personally educating over 270 older adults on fall prevention and health and wellness.
Cost: FREE for Members and $25 for Non-Members
Injury Prevention Webinar | Older Adult Fall Prevention Programs: From a National to a Local Level
September is Older Adult Fall Prevention Awareness Month and we are ready to celebrate by showcasing some great work that is being done to support the older adults in our communities. On a national level we have the National Council on Aging advocating for funding and providing fall prevention resources and materials. One hospital in New York has taken on the ACL grant for the state and has seen great success in doing so. Another hospital in Colorado has implemented a new program in their community called AIM, or Aging with Independence and Mobility, to provide an evidence-informed approach to fall prevention allowing participants with time and transportation barriers to participate. Join us as we hear the success stories from a national to local level.
Presenters:
Kathleen A. Cameron, BS Pharm, MPH has over 30 years of experience in the health care and gerontology fields as a pharmacist, researcher, and program director focusing on health promotion and disease prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, mental health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Ms. Cameron is Senior Director at the National Council on Aging (NCOA) where she serves as subject matter expert on a variety of health-related topics, including mental health and aging, and oversees the U.S. Administration on Aging-funded National Falls Prevention and Chronic Disease Self-Management Resource Centers, and the National Institute of Senior Centers. Her work supports policy and advocacy efforts at NCOA to promote systems change and improve health care and social service delivery for older adults. Ms. Cameron is currently the Chair of the National Coalition on Mental Health and Aging. Ms. Cameron was previously with JBS International as director of a SAMHSA-funded technical assistance center aimed at educating the aging network, mental health providers, and policy makers about behavioral health challenges and solutions older adults. She has also held positions at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation in the 2000s and the National Council on Aging in the late 1990s. Ms. Cameron received her BS degree in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and her Master of Public Health degree from Yale University.
Kristi Ladowski has over 10 years' experience coordinating health promotion programs, leading the efforts that earned a 2020 Safe States Program Award. She had successfully led her Level 1 Trauma Center’s Injury Prevention Program through two American College of Surgeons verification processes. Kristi is a co-PI 2022-2025 ACL 2022 Empowering Communities to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program grant, working to increase capacity and sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs across Long Island and New York state. She is also working on her PhD dissertation focusing on the dissemination and implementation of falls prevention interventions.
Brittany M. Dillahunty, PT, DPT, GCS, CSRS graduated with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas, in 2013. She has been a physical therapist for UCHealth for the past ten years. During that time, she has practiced throughout the continuum of care and has obtained specialist certifications in geriatric physical therapy and stroke and vestibular rehabilitation. Brittany has a passion for working with older adults and has been an instructor for Stepping On, an evidence-based, fall prevention program since 2016. In 2020, Brittany developed the exercise prescription for the virtual fall prevention program, Aging with Independence and Mobility (AIM). She has served as an AIM instructor since February 2021, personally educating over 270 older adults on fall prevention and health and wellness.
Cost: FREE for Members and $25 for Non-Members
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