Symposium

Geriatric Rehabilitation

Cancer Rehabilitation

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Cross-Cutting

Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)

Stroke

Cross-collaboration to Reduce Preventable Falls: A Symposium from the Tri-alliance of Onc/Geri/Neuro Balance & Falls SIGs of the American Physical Therapy Association (845509)

Presenter(s)

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  Jennifer L. Vincenzo, PT, MPH, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  Fayetteville, Arkansas

  Presentation Slides Handouts
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  Earllaine Croarkin, MPT

  Physical Therapist
  National Institutes of Health
  Rockville, Maryland
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  Julie L. Schwertfeger, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
  North Chicago, Illinois

This presentation, developed by the chairs of the Balance and Falls Special Interest Groups of the Geriatric, Neurologic, and Oncologic Academies of the American Physical Therapy Association, aims to improve clinical reasoning for screening for falls risk among older adults with comorbidities of neurological or oncological origin.

Learning Objectives:

• discuss current initiatives in the specialities of Geriatric, Neurology, and Oncology that highlight the best evidence to support fall risk screenings
• Identify screening tools that may be specific to setting and diagnostic category and those that have demonstrated utility or evidence to support use
• apply their awareness of multiple perspectives in condition-specific presentations to screen the complex (Geri/Neuro/Onc) patient for fall risk
• Understand common errors in application of the most common and/or well-established screening and assessment tools