GrassRoots Falls Festival
19 & 20 September 2019
Esplanade Hotel Fremantle
http://grassrootsfallsfestival.com.au/
Unicare Health would like to thank the organizing committee for inviting us to exhibit at the 3rd GrassRoots Falls Festival and for promoting us as Gold Sponsors of the event.
We are both proud and honoured for the opportunity to be selected as falls prevention advocates at this conference and to exhibit alongside other major equipment partners in the industry such as Cura (silver sponsor), Hillrom (bronze sponsor) and Arjo.
The GrassRoots Falls Festival provided an awesome opportunity for health professionals with an interest in reducing the risk of falling among older people to enjoy sharing the latest ideas and innovative approaches in practice, research and falls prevention at the GrassRoots level.
Presentations focused on current research, practice innovations, cutting edge work in falls prevention and management and other exciting GrassRoots falls prevention initiatives happening in Australia and overseas.
In her presentation titled “Sleeping with the elephant in the room”, Unicare Health’s clinical educator Annette Terranova reviewed risk factors contributing to bedroom falls, sighting significant ones arising from beds.
Using the in-built falls prevention features of Wissner Bosserhoff’s intelligent care bed Sentida 7i, such as the SafeFree® patented side guard concept, Bed-Exit Manager and Mobi-Lift® to encourage self-mobilization as examples, Annette challenged the audience to become aware of innovations available and to embrace emerging technology to prevent falls from beds.
More than 60% of falls happen in the bedroom. Becoming intelligent about selecting the right bed and complimenting clinical strategies for individual needs can significantly reduce the risk of falls.
Learn more about the Sentida 7i intelligent care bed by Wissner Bosserhoff.
Linet’s Image 3 extra-low universal hospital bed was also on display to feature its extra-low patient positioning to significantly reduce the risk of injuries from bed falls, especially during the night.
Learn more about the Image 3 extra-low universal hospital bed by Linet.
Unicare Health had an awesome time at the conference catching up with old friends, making new ones and discussing challenges surrounding falls.
If there was one important lesson to take away from the conference, let’s remember that preventing falls is much more effective than treating the harm that results from them.
For our older patients, falls prevention means remaining safely and independently and avoiding hospital admissions. This is why major aged care providers in Western Australia like Juniper and Southern Plus have chosen Wissner Bosserhoff aged care beds as their responsible bed of choice to prevent falls, manual handling and pressure injuries. Not forgetting that adopting digital technology innovations also has the added benefit of sustainably relieving the load of demanding nursing tasks.
Unicare Health provides a wide range of assistive technology and equipment solutions for falls prevention and management. We are glad to be leading the way in delivering global healthcare equipment solutions in Western Australia to achieve better patient outcomes.
We welcome you to ring us to discuss your needs 1800 656 654.
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Posted on 27 September 2019