Falls and Fractures

NOTE: This course contains both Instructor Led and Active Learning components. You must spend at least 2 hours online to earn your Certificate for this course. Course description below.

Your instructor for this course is Benjamin Pearce. He is the author of numerous books including Senior Living Communities: Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities a definitive work which summarizes two decades of senior housing operational expertise encompassing over 100 communities in 23 states, currently in its second printing published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mr. Pearce teaches graduate level classes on senior housing and is a faculty member of the Real Estate Institute at New York University and Johns Hopkins University. He also serves on the editorial advisory boards of Resident Life/Assisted Living Success magazine, Briefings on Assisted Living, and Assisted Living Executive Report. He is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Potomac Homes, the residential alternative to institutional care for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia enabling residents to enjoy the benefits of full-time, professional care in a familiar home setting.

This course covers the following topics:

• Falls and Fractures
• How Serious is the Problem?
• Outcomes linked to falls
• The Most Common Causes of Accidental Death
• Falls Risk Assessment
• Common causes of falls in the elderly
• Common presentations for elderly falls on the same level
• Common presentations for elderly falls one level to another
• I HATE FALLING
• Risk Factors
• Modify Risk Factors
• Home Safety Checklist
• Falls Intervention Assisted Living
• Therapeutic Options for Preventing and Treating Osteoporosis
• Improve your Balance
• Diagnosis

In this course you will learn:

• How serious the a problem falling is in the senior population
• Common cause of falls in the elderly
• The risk factors associated with falling, and how to modify these risks
• Intervention strategies to help prevent falls and fractures in your facility

• NAB: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and approved for 2 clock hours.
• California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS): PCE # 3291
• California RCFE and ARF: Approval pursuant to NAB and BBS approval
• Oregon Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators: 2007-040: General 2 Ethics:0
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment: Approval #: LTS -A1138 (Resident Care)