Comprehensive Guide for Fall Prevention in Occupational Therapy

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Video Runtime: 63 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 26 Minutes

OT professionals can make a big impact on patients’ lives when they address fall prevention in meaningful, patient-specific ways. OTPs will learn how to go beyond a basic treatment session by addressing falls to a robust assessment incorporating driving, IADLs, and a patient’s future plans. This allows OTPs to shine in their important role in fall prevention.

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Krista Covell-Pierson

Krista Covell-Pierson, OTR/L, BCB-PMD, owns an innovative private practice, Covell Care and Rehabilitation, which aims to help adult and older adult clients become safer, more independent, and engaged in the home and community through a unique and one-of-a-kind model. Krista developed this model from the ground up, and it…

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Chapters & learning objectives

1. Addressing Patient-Specific Fall Risk in Basic Activities of Daily Living

Communicate with empathy while also providing important information to families and patients related to fall prevention. Build trust with patients during these sometimes difficult discussions.

2. Moving Beyond the Basics to Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs)

Start with the BADL as a building block in your fall prevention treatments. Make the treatments as real life as possible, either in someone’s typical living environment or through simulation.

3. Fall Risk Related to Driving and the Role of Occupational Therapy

Driving is an under-addressed and important IADL for OTPs. Fall risk has a direct correlation to someone’s risk for car accidents. OTPs will learn how to integrate this into treatments.

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