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Neurology and Neuroscience
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International Conference on
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alls among the older adults in community and long termcare
settings is also amajor issue faced by communityworldwide.
Can Physiotherapy interventions further reduce falls risk among
older adults? Evidence-based Physiotherapy interventions has
shown results in further reduce falls risk for older adults to
meet the future demographic challenges due to rapidly ageing
population. There is an increasing trend of evidence-based
physiotherapy interventions being developed for community
falls prevention programs in Singapore. Examples of community
setting in Singapore where evidence-based Physiotherapy
interventions have been successfully implemented will be
highlighted and the accumulated new learnings over the past
2 years will be shared for the common challenge of how to
provide timely appropriate Physiotherapy interventions for falls
prevention in community and long term care settings.
Speaker Biography
Limin Yong is a senior Principal Physiotherapist at NTUC Health, Singapore and adjunct
lecturer for undergraduate Physiotherapy programat Singapore Institute of Technology.
She graduated from the National Taiwan University. In 2009, she was awarded the
Health Manpower Development Plan fellowship by Ministry of Health, Singapore, to
undergo specialised training in geriatric rehabilitation and falls prevention in Australia.
She is currently developing evidence-based care models and enhancing long term
care manpower capability for community settings in Singapore. She is skilled in clinical
geriatric physiotherapy. Her research interest is in falls and injury prevention, dementia
care and palliative care for older adults.
e:
limin.yong@ntuchealth.sgLimin Yong
NTUC Health, Singapore
Physiotherapy interventions on fall prevention