Events

Hip Protectors Webinar

Hip Protectors: How to make them work in your facility

Administrators and health professionals associated with long-term care facilities are invited to join us for an informative webinar on how hip protectors can best be used to improve health outcomes for residents in long-term care facilities.

Hip protectors represent an attractive strategy for reducing hip fractures in high-risk elderly individuals living in long-term care. However, clinical studies have yielded conflicting results regarding their clinical effectiveness. This is mainly due to two factors: biomechanical effectiveness and user compliance.

This webinar will discuss the biomechanical effectiveness of hip protectors and will identify the best strategies to overcome perceived barriers and improve acceptance and adherence with the use of hip protectors.

The webinar will be presented by:

Dr. Fabio Feldman
Manager, Seniors Falls and Injury Prevention, Fraser Health Authority
Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Vicky Scott
Senior Advisor, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit
BC Ministry of Health Services      

Dr. Stephen Robinovitch
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Simon Fraser University

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Time: This 90-minute webinar will be offered live one time only.
Consult the list below for the time in your area:

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PST
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. MST
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. CST
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. AST
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. NST

For more information, contact Dr. Fabio Feldman at [email protected].

Presented by Fraser Health, the Technology for Injury Prevention in Seniors (TIPS) program, and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) through a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).