LIVE ONLINE COURSES 2026


FALLS PREVENTION EXERCISE: WILL ANY STRENGTH AND BALANCE PROGRAMME WORK?
  

ONLINE WEBINAR (Zoom)

Prof. Dawn Skelton
 

Date: 5 Feb 2026  •  19:00 - 21:00 UK time (7 - 9 pm)

 

CPD hours: 2  •  cost: £45  
 
STUDENT FEE: £20.00 • USE DISCOUNT CODE "student"
 
Professor Skelton will discuss the effect of the pandemic on frailty and falls incidence and the importance of increasing physical activity and in particular strength and balance exercise in the primary prevention and secondary management of falls risk.
She will cover the current evidence base for falls prevention exercise, including dose, duration and challenge and the importance of offering the right programme to the right person at the right time.
With reference to the World Falls Guidelines, she will talk about different prescriptions of exercise for different timepoints and different risk profiles and of course the importance of behaviour change techniques to support adherence to the programmes.

Prof. Dawn Skelton is an exercise physiologist and is currently Professor in Ageing and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is an academic with a strong interest in exercise programme implementation (dose, fidelity, motivation, adherence, choice) and in the development of apps with older people.
She was a coauthor on the World Falls Guidelines and received the British Geriatrics Society Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in translating falls prevention research into practice. She has chaired the Older Adults Panel of the Chief Medical Officers Physical Activity for Health Guidelines and the Royal Osteoporosis Society’s Consensus Statement on Exercise for Osteoporosis. She is also a Director of Later Life Training, a not-for profit training company.

Link to work/publications: https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/persons/dawn-skelton
 


The course will provide for OSTEOPATHIC PRACTICE STANDARDS CPD requirements in the following areas:

2 hours Learning with Others


OPS CPD RequirementsLearning include
Communication and patient partnershipListening, respecting patient's concerns and preferences, dignity and modesty, effective communication, providing information, consent, patient partnership.
Knowledge, skills and performance Having sufficient knowledge and skills, working within training and competence, keeping up to date, analysing and reflecting on information to enhance patient care.
Safety and quality in practicePatient evaluation, management, safeguarding, wider role in enhancing patients' health and wellbeing.