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2025 VIC Branch Winter Breakfast

Join us at the annual VIC Branch Winter Breakfast.

Our keynote speaker, Prof Cathy Said, will be presenting 'Falling short: Bridging the gap between evidence and practice in falls prevention'.



Falls are a major health concern in Australia, affecting one in three older adults each year.

Despite strong evidence that falls can be prevented, intervention uptake remains low.

Physiotherapists are uniquely positioned to support falls prevention through risk identification, exercise prescription, and advocacy.

This presentation will provide an overview of recent evidence and guidelines, including the critical role of exercise. It will also explore challenges in implementing falls prevention evidence into practice and consider ways in which physiotherapists can help bridge this gap.

Panel discussion

A panel discussion will follow the presentation. Joining Cathy on the panel are:
- Dr Richard Kane - National Clinical Director of St Vincent's Virtual & Home, Clinical Program Director of Continuing Care at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
- Stephen Peterson - Consumer Representative

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Note: This is a face-to-face event. It is not being recorded or livestreamed.

Event timetable:
6.30am - 7.00am: registration and networking
7.00am - 9.00am: presentation and breakfast
9.00am - 9.30am: networking

Presenters

Cathy Said


Professor Cathy Said [PhD, B App Sci (Physio)] is the inaugural Professor Physiotherapy, Western Health & The University of Melbourne and a program director with the Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Science. Cathy has over 25 years' experience working clinically as a physiotherapist in neurological and gerontological rehabilitation. Her research focuses on fall prevention and the rehabilitation of gait and balance in older people and people with stroke. She has attracted over $16 M in research funding and currently leading a program of research focussed on fall prevention for people from ethnically diverse communities. She has over 90 publications in peer review journals. She is the current co-chair of the Victorian Falls Prevention Alliance and a past chair of the Grant Review Committee of the Physiotherapy Research Foundation. She is one of the developers of the Safe Exercise at Home website which provides evidenced based information on exercise and physical activity for older people.

Richard Kane


Dr Richard Kane is a Consultant Geriatrician, National Clinical Director of St Vincent's Virtual & Home and Clinical Program Director of Continuing Care at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, a former member of Council with the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) and sits on the St Vincent's Health Australia Aged Care Board Subcommittee and Victorian Falls Prevention Alliance. In his roles at St Vincent's and through his affiliation with the University of Melbourne where he is a Senior Fellow, Richard balances specialist medical work, teaching and research with strategic and governance leadership across the spectrum of clinical services for older people, from acute and subacute through to community, residential, home and virtual.

Stephen Peterson


Stephen's role as a consumer representative commenced in January 2019, when he was offered a position on a committee at Safer Care Victoria, focusing on issues affecting the elderly.This role initially was based on Stephen's history of visiting elderly friends in aged care, followed up during the past decade by being a volunteer visitor to two aged care facilities.Over the past six years, in addition to being on numerous Safer Care committees and expert working groups, and continuing, Stephen has become a consumer with other organisations, mostly also focusing on issues affecting elderly people, in particular falls.Stephen's interest in this subject arose from a series of falls his father had, ultimately leading to a fractured hip that he never recovered from. Drawing on this experience, Stephen is now a consumer with the Victorian Falls Prevention Alliance, Rehabilitation Ageing and Independent Living, and the ANZ Hip Fracture Registry. He is also a consumer Investigator on two Medical Research Future Fund projects relating to falls.In addition, through his involvement with other organisations that involve people of this demographic, including as a U3A tutor and visitor to a hospital ward with elderly patients, Stephen is constantly in contact with people at risk of a fall, including some who have had one or more falls.Falls, in hospital, the home, or out and about, is a subject of great interest to him.

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Presenters

Cathy Said


Professor Cathy Said [PhD, B App Sci (Physio)] is the inaugural Professor Physiotherapy, Western Health & The University of Melbourne and a program director with the Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Science. Cathy has over 25 years' experience working clinically as a physiotherapist in neurological and gerontological rehabilitation. Her research focuses on fall prevention and the rehabilitation of gait and balance in older people and people with stroke. She has attracted over $16 M in research funding and currently leading a program of research focussed on fall prevention for people from ethnically diverse communities. She has over 90 publications in peer review journals. She is the current co-chair of the Victorian Falls Prevention Alliance and a past chair of the Grant Review Committee of the Physiotherapy Research Foundation. She is one of the developers of the Safe Exercise at Home website which provides evidenced based information on exercise and physical activity for older people.


Richard Kane


Dr Richard Kane is a Consultant Geriatrician, National Clinical Director of St Vincent's Virtual & Home and Clinical Program Director of Continuing Care at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, a former member of Council with the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) and sits on the St Vincent's Health Australia Aged Care Board Subcommittee and Victorian Falls Prevention Alliance. In his roles at St Vincent's and through his affiliation with the University of Melbourne where he is a Senior Fellow, Richard balances specialist medical work, teaching and research with strategic and governance leadership across the spectrum of clinical services for older people, from acute and subacute through to community, residential, home and virtual.


Stephen Peterson


Stephen's role as a consumer representative commenced in January 2019, when he was offered a position on a committee at Safer Care Victoria, focusing on issues affecting the elderly.This role initially was based on Stephen's history of visiting elderly friends in aged care, followed up during the past decade by being a volunteer visitor to two aged care facilities.Over the past six years, in addition to being on numerous Safer Care committees and expert working groups, and continuing, Stephen has become a consumer with other organisations, mostly also focusing on issues affecting elderly people, in particular falls.Stephen's interest in this subject arose from a series of falls his father had, ultimately leading to a fractured hip that he never recovered from. Drawing on this experience, Stephen is now a consumer with the Victorian Falls Prevention Alliance, Rehabilitation Ageing and Independent Living, and the ANZ Hip Fracture Registry. He is also a consumer Investigator on two Medical Research Future Fund projects relating to falls.In addition, through his involvement with other organisations that involve people of this demographic, including as a U3A tutor and visitor to a hospital ward with elderly patients, Stephen is constantly in contact with people at risk of a fall, including some who have had one or more falls.Falls, in hospital, the home, or out and about, is a subject of great interest to him.


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