Digital home-based balance exercise program to prevent falls

This presentation will focus on the StandingTall program, a digital platform designed to improve balance and reduce falls through prescribed exercise. It will showcase the program’s effectiveness in various populations, including older adults with cognitive impairments, and highlight its high adherence rates, user-friendly design, and flexibility. Physiotherapists globally will benefit from understanding how this cost-effective tool can be integrated into practice, improving patient outcomes by enhancing balance, confidence, and fall prevention, with evidence of its acceptability among both patients and healthcare providers.

Professor Kim Delbaere – Neuroscience Research Australia

Professor Kim Delbaere is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Director of Innovation & Translation at the Falls, Balance & Injury Research Centre at Neuroscience Research Australia, and a Professor of Population Health at UNSW. Kim received her physiotherapy degree and PhD at the Ghent University in Belgium. Her research has introduced innovative falls prevention solutions for older adults. Her clinical assessment tools are widely adopted in best-practice fall prevention guidelines worldwide, and her intervention programs have received national and international acclaim.

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