Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement

Every year, one in three Canadian seniors will fall at least once. These falls can result in serious injuries, including fractures, head injuries, bruises and lacerations. Falls represent the sixth leading cause of death among seniors, and, of the thousands of seniors who break a hip in a fall, one in five dies within a year. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among seniors, and the treatment of injuries relating to falls costs the healthcare system approximately $3 billion a year. CIHR-funded research by Dr. Vicky Scott, Director of the Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging, has demonstrated the effectiveness of fall surveillance and prevention strategies, and has identified a number of significant risks that health care practitioners and older adults should be conscious of. To translate Dr. Scott's research, we plan to create 2 short videos, one aimed at caregivers of those with dementia and another for healthcare practitioners/students. The video content will be disseminated online and elsewhere through the physician-led news and KT organization, Insidermedicine. Insidermedicine has created over 4000 evidence-based videos over the past 4 years. Insidermedicine's partners include GoogleNews, Apple and Medline Plus. In addition, the content will also appear on InsidermedicineTV screens that will be placed in the clinic setting. The content will be evaluated through both a focus goup and an interactive online survey exploring the impact of watching the material on the likelihood of caregivers of discussing new treatments for dementia with healthcare professionals.