#CFPC2025 wraps with powerful closing panel on aging & advocacy. @drvivians.bsky.social @drfarles.bsky.social & Danielle Cowen from Ontario Caregivers Assoc. share what’s urgently needed to support aging in place, break down barriers, & create a future where aging is healthy, happy & full of choice.
Injury prevention has some great terminology: this is the first time I have seen “Rate of splat” used related to injury risk from a fall. From Dr. Amy Nester, who is presenting on padded floor mats as a means of reducing fall injury in care facilities. #CFPC2025.
Three panelists sit in chairs on a podium with a coffee table in front of them holding water jug, water glasses and two takeaway coffee cups. Behind them is a wall of horizontal wood panelling with gaps between each wood panel. Panelists named in the post in order they are seated.
Day 2 Canadian Fall Prevention Conference panel on Two-Eyed Seeing: Insights into Indigenizing Evidence-informed Fall Prevention Exercise Programming. Nicole Lee, lecturer, Lakehead University; Heather O'Watch, USaskatchewan; Kim Wheatley, Anishinaabe Ancestral Knowledge Keeper. #CFPC2025 #Migwetch
My colleague @stephcowle.bsky.social moderates a workshop on Older Adults, Falls and Concussion at the Canadian Fall Prevention Conference: an intersection of two key focus areas for @parachute.ca injury prevention work. #CFPC2025 #ConcussionEd
At KITE labs @uhntoronto.bsky.social. This spaceship-looking thing is in KITE’s Challenging Environment Assessment Laboratory. The base can move a module (this one's the stairs lab) through any combination of 3 translational degrees & 3 rotational degrees. i.e., it rocks in any direction. #CFPC2025
Collage of four photos showing speakers at a podium, which has a sign, 6th Canadian Fall Prevention Conference. To each speakers' left is a pull-up banner with the words Preventing Injuries, Saving Lives and a logo, Parachute, website parachute.ca
Next up: Digital Poster Presentation Session – a rapid-fire review of 18 research projects, with presenters sharing key insights in just 3 minutes each. Moderated by
me! VP of Marketing & Communications at
@parachutecanada . For abstracts, visit site.pheedloop.com/event/FALLCO... #CFPC2025
Three people sit in chairs on a stage with a low table in front of them on which there is a glass water jug and five water glasses. At left, a woman holding a mike with long straight brown hair, royal blue jacket, black pants; in midddle, a blonde woman with hair pulled into bun, pink sweater, black shirt and black pants. At right, a grey-haired man with glasses, navy suit, blue shirt, patterned tie.
Our attitudes about aging, and our biases against older people, affect so much, including efforts to prevent falls. Next up at #CFPC2025 is the panel Of a Certain Age: Ageism Awareness for a Brighter Tomorrow. "Ageism prevents prevention," says Jenna Wickens, CFS Counselling and Wellbeing (at left).
Looking forward to hearing from all the speakers and panelists over the next two days! #CFPC2025
My office for the next two days. Toronto Public Library. Canadian Fall Prevention Conference. #CFPC2025 @pfuselli.bsky.social @parachute.ca
Thanks for the boost! Also noting that we've confirmed our keynote speaker, Dr. Alan Lord from Australia, and the full program is now available to view on the conference website. #FallPreventionCA #CFPC2025
