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Overview

 

Work package 4 covers the development and assessment of strategic materials for implementation of recommendations for preventing falls among elderly people in the EU.

Aim

This WP aims at increasing awareness of EU citizens, scientific community, health care personnel and providers, as well as policy makers on fall related injuries and effective practices for their prevention. Thus, WP-4 is directly linked to the first and third general objectives of the call for proposals, by improving the collective evidence regarding the occurrence of fall injuries as well as advocating and promoting prevention measures of such injuries.  

Deliverables  

  • Report summarizing the research on the feasibility study addressing implementation of large scale interventions for preventing falls in the elderly.

  • Materials on strategic resources for dissemination of the prevention of falls among the elderly.

  • Report on the assessment of the feasibility of large scale interventions in selected EU countries.

  • Final report of WP4

 

Outline of WP-4

Module 1

  • Classification of best practices in terms of resources needed and target population.

§         Estimates of prevalence of risk factor exposure for falls in the elderly in different European countries. Collection of information on availability of resources requested for implementation, legislative aspects and already implemented interventions in various European countries.  

Module 2

  • Collection of original data on awareness on risks of falling and barriers to implementation of interventions.

Module 3

  • Development of strategic resource materials to implement interventions to prevent falls among the elderly.  

WP 4 Leader:

 

 

Eva Negri 

Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan – Italy

Tel: +39 0239014525

Email: evanegri@marionegri.it 

 

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WP 4 Partners:

Malcolm Barrow

Consumer Safety-UK

Veronika Benesova

Charles University Prague, Institute of Public Health & Preventive Medicine-CZ

Maria Benyi

"Fodor Jozsef" National Center for Public Health Centre-HU

Taie Kaasik

National Institute for Health Development-EE

 

Irena Grmek Kosnik

Institute of Public Health Kranj, Kranj-SI

 

Participating partner:

Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries

Dept of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Athens University Medical School-GR  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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