8:30-9:30 a.m

129-D. The Built Environment: A Tool for Preventing Falls

Senior living providers have an obligation to protect residents and staff from falls while helping them maintain their autonomy and enhancing their quality of life. This session will explore essential, yet often overlooked, tools to help you meet that obligation: the buildings where residents and team members live and work. Presenters will demonstrate how simple modifications to existing structures or new construction in your skilled nursing, transitional care, assisted living, and memory care settings can prevent falls and improve outcomes for residents and staff. Join this session to pinpoint specific elements of your organization's built environment that can help you prevent, detect, and protect against falls and their adverse outcomes.

• Brittney Thoreson, Vice President of Strategy and Development, Vivie — Alexandria, MN, US
• Sophia Allwood, Corporate Director of Clinical Services, Transforming Age — Bellevue, WA, US
• Joel Cormier, Director of Sales and Engineering, Viconic Health — Milfoerd, MI, USA
• Jackie Patterson, Director, Interior Design, Lenhardt Rodgers Architecture + Interiors — Fort Washington, PA, US