Falls Prevention in Aged Care

Content
3 modules
Course length
80 mins
Instructor
Essential Skills
Released
22 May 2025
Price
$46.50 AUD

Description

This online course empowers aged care workers to identify, assess, and reduce falls risks for older people through practical, person-centred strategies. Learn how to recognise physical, cognitive, medical, and environmental risk factors, respond effectively to incidents, and support safe mobility and recovery. Aligned with Aged Care Quality Standards, the course covers early intervention, observation skills, documentation, and post-falls care - ensuring dignity, safety, and quality of life for every individual in your care.

 

This course has been mapped to the Aged Care Quality Standards: 3.1.5, 3.2.5, 3.3.3, 5.4.3, 5.4.4 & 5.5.3

Objectives

This course covers:

  • Understand why falls are a major cause of injury, hospitalisation, and death in older people

  • Recognise physical, cognitive, medical, and environmental risk factors for falls

  • Conduct and respond to formal and informal falls risk assessments (e.g. FRAT, FROP, MFES)

  • Identify common medical contributors such as orthostatic hypotension, vestibular disorders, and medication side effects

  • Respond appropriately to fear of falling, dementia, and delirium as cognitive risk factors

  • Implement prevention strategies including safe environments, mobility support, and allied health input

  • Understand your role in reporting, documenting, and responding to falls in line with duty of care and dignity of risk

  • Deliver effective post-fall care and know when and how to escalate concerns within your scope of practice

Certificate

By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate Certificate of Completion

Learning credits

CPD
1.0

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