Affiliate Professor Elissa Burton
Concerning the Presenter:
Elissa Burton is an Accredited Sports activities Scientist (Degree 2) and an Affiliate Professor at Curtin College in Western Australia. Elissa’s analysis focuses on serving to older adults to stay independently at dwelling for so long as they select, by wholesome dwelling methods. A lot of Elissa’s work has been with older adults who obtain dwelling care companies, reablement or restorative care, selling bodily exercise, stopping falls, and inspiring wholesome older adults to take part extra in power and steadiness coaching. She is a present NHMRC Investigator Grant holder and her undertaking is working with folks dwelling with delicate cognitive impairment and investigating the effectiveness of a fall prevention intervention. She is the Co-Area Lead for the Dementia and Ageing Area at Curtin College’s enAble Institute and a Fellow of the Australasian Affiliation of Gerontology (AAG).
Concerning the Seminar:
It’s well-known that one in three older folks fall annually. Older folks receiving dwelling care companies fall twice as typically as these the identical age not receiving companies and other people dwelling with dementia fall extra continuously than these with out a cognitive impairment. Nevertheless, little is thought about folks dwelling with delicate cognitive impairment, their falls prevalence, threat elements for falling and interventions which were discovered efficient for lowering falls. On this presentation I’ll present an summary of the present analysis on falls for folks dwelling with delicate cognitive impairment, the bodily exercise and sedentary behaviour of a cohort of individuals dwelling with delicate cognitive impairment and talk about recruitment of individuals with delicate cognitive impairment right into a falls prevention trial
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