Disease Management

Injury Prevention

In collaboration with the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Injury Prevention Section (ISP), IHCS sponsored a free one-day seminar specifically for managed care plan, assisted living group center, and nursing home administrator case managers and staff. Dissemination of injury prevention information to case managers is essential to assist in the coordination of care for individuals at high risk, since case managers provide a key interface between primary care providers, hospitals, and home health care agencies

The seminar provided attendees with the following information:

• Demographic data related to fall prevention in older adults
• Factors related to fall risk assessment
• Methods of effective communication, coaching, and interviewing with older adults and caregivers
• Basic assessment checklists of activities, questions, and reliable tools relating to fall prevention assessment
• Phone interviewing techniques for efficient and meaningful fall prevention questioning
• Interventions for identified risk factors
• Injury and fall prevention resources

The featured speaker was Holly Lookabaugh-Deur, MHS, PT, GCS, ABD, owner and president of Generation Care, Muskegon Michigan. Ms. Lookabaugh-Duer is a practicing physical therapist with 24 years of clinical experience who specializes in the treatment of geriatric clients, including intervention programs for fall prevention.

Link to Presentations

Link(s) to additional resource materials

Link to MDCH Injury Prevention website

Project Contact: Debra Darling