Live WEbinar

From Hospital to Home: Holistic Assessment & Intervention for Fall Prevention

Are you a Just for OT subscriber or already registered for this course, but still seeing the enroll prompt? Click here to sign in.
This course is also included in the Just for OT Subscribers.
Live webinar

From Hospital to Home: Holistic Assessment & Intervention for Fall Prevention

*Rescheduled from 3/18)
Thursday, March 20
7 pm (CT) | 8 pm (ET)
2 Contact Hour, .20 CEUs, 2.5 PDUs

Educational level: Introductory

Category 1: OT Service Delivery
Category 3: Foundational Knowledge

If you need assistance or accommodations, please contact us at Info@AspireOT.us
Drag to resize
New Webinar

Encore Presentation

Now Available for Individual Purchase

Future offerings will be made available for individual purchase as well as included in the Just for OT subscription.

This webinar will be held on Zoom.

Older adults living in the community is a growing population with ever-increasing fall rates.  OTs and OTAs can play a significant role in falls prevention. Using a holistic OT approach, occupational therapy practitioners can ensure comprehensive assessment and intervention from the hospital to the home and community.

This course will discuss OT's role in occupation-based fall prevention.  Assessment and interventions will be discussed and then applied to a case study to provide OT practitioners with practical knowledge and strategies they can take straight to work the next day.

Target Audience: Occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, occupational therapy students
This occupational therapy continuing education course uses the following instructional methods: visual aides (ie slides), discussion board, guided note taking, and learning, and practice opportunities.
Content disclosure: This course does not exclusively focus on any specific product or service.

Presented by:
Pooja A. Patel, DrOT, OTR/L, BCG, CDP, CFPS, CGCP 
Drag to resize
Benefits of this course
  • Identify 3 occupation-based screening and assessment tools to identify fall risk in hospitalized older adults planning to be discharged to the community.
  • Discuss 3 occupation-based interventions to address fall prevention in acute care settings that can translate to the home and community settings.
  • Identify appropriate assessments and interventions as applied to a case study.

What OTs and OTAs are saying about this course

"Addresses more of a holistic approach with Fall Prevention and discharge planning."

OTA Course Participant

"I am going to take a more holistic approach with my treatment sessions "

OTA Course Participant 

"This is fantastic for convincing management that OTs need to do home assessments before their patients are discharged from acute care."

OT Course Participant 
Instructor bioS
A smiling black woman in a natural background
Pooja A. Patel, DrOT, OTR/L, BCG, CDP, CFPS, CGCP
Aspire OT Instructor

Pooja has nearly a decade of experience working with older adults in a variety of practice settings as an occupational therapist. She is Board Certified in Gerontology with additional specialty certifications in dementia, fall prevention, and geriatric care. After almost six years working inpatient, Dr. Patel left full-time inpatient care to split her time across settings. While she continues to practice inpatient on a per diem basis, she now holds roles in academia as an Adjunct Assistant Professor and guest lecturer, in leadership through various volunteer board positions, and in private practice through her own consulting firm where she educates, coaches, and connects families to caregiver support resources as well as provides holistic retirement planning services. She is also the host of the Aging Together podcast which shares expert insights on aging and lived experiences of caregiving.

DISCLOSURES

Financial: Pooja is compensated as an Aspire OT instructor. 
Non Financial:  Pooja does not have any non-financial disclosures.
Write your awesome label here.

Purchase a subscription for only $69  to attend this webinar as well as have 12 months access to our self-paced courses, live webinars, discussion panels and forums!

Course Outline

 0 - 5 minutes

 6-10 minutes 

11-15 minutes

16-25 minutes


26-35 minutes

36-50 minutes

51-65minutes

66-70 minutes

71-80 minutes

81-85 minutes

86-90 minutes

 Introduction and Objectives 

Background on Falls & Older Adults

OT’s Role in Fall Prevention

Practice Comparison: Inpatient Acute Care vs Home & Community

The Evidence

Screenings & Assessments

Interventions   

Case Example

Case Example Activity

Questions

Wrap Up
Completion Requirements
Drag to resize
In order to receive the certificate of completion, participants must meet ALL of the following criteria:
  • Payment of the course in full
  • Attend webinar in its entirety
  • Complete Attestation of Attendance
  • Pass the case study based course exam with a score of 70% or greater
  • Complete the Post Course Evaluation
Please note that no credit or certificate will be issued unless all criteria is met.  Partial credit will not be issued.  
cancellation policy
Live Courses and Webinars
Learner cancellations: In the event that the learner requests to cancel or is unable to attend a course, a refund for the total paid for the course will be granted if Aspire OT is notified via email at info@aspireot.us within 10 business days prior to date of the scheduled course, minus a non-refundable registration fee of 25% of registration price.  If the learner provides notification of cancellation less then 10 business days prior to the scheduled course, the learner will be offered the opportunity to attend the same webinar on an alternate date or enrollment in the recorded on-demand version of that webinar, instead of a refund.  

No refunds will be issued after a course has been attended for more than 30 minutes.  Partial credit will not be issued.  

Provider cancellations: In the event of inclement weather or other event resulting in the inability for a live course to be provided within the scheduled time, learners will be offered an alternate date or a full refund for registration paid.
On-Demand web Courses 
Web courses will remain available to learners for 1 year. No refunds will be available for web courses that have been attended or viewed for greater than 30 minutes. In the event of a refund, the learner will be unenrolled in the course immediately upon issuance of a refund. No refunds will be issued for any course in which a certificate has been issued.  
Logo AOTA Approved Provider
Aspire OT is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development.
PD activity approval ID# 10883
This Distance Learning-Interactive course is offered at 0.20 CEUs (Introductory level, OT Service Delivery, Foundational Knowledge)
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
This course is

Registered with CE Broker

Aspire OT reports directly to CE Broker for those states that require it: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee.

  • CE Broker Tracking Number: 20-1263030
  • Individuals must complete the required steps to set up their Aspire OT account. You can view those steps here. 
  • Course completions are reported within 48 hours.
  • Refer to our FAQ for more information.

Course Author

image of logo: purple triangle with 3 point orange star in middle, left tip coming out of triangle, words below Aspire OT
This course is being offered by Aspire OT.