The Falls and Fractures

The Falls and Fractures Special Interest Group

Leader: Alvaro Cassas Herrero Nathalie van der Velde

Objectives

  • To connect geriatricians, other health care workers, researchers and students throughout Europe with an interest in falls and fractures prevention with the aim to create and support a European network
  • To update knowledge related to falls and fracture prevention
  • To successfully disseminate knowledge on falls and fracture prevention to health care workers, students and the older population at risk
  • To (co)develop and support effective falls and fracture preventive interventions and to stimulate a personalized approach  
  • To harmonize practices on falls and fracture management across Europe

Outcomes

  • Development of interactive, online deprescribing tool for FRIDs (fall-risk increasing drugs: Age and Ageing 2020; 1-11 doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa249 Link to accompanying deprescribing tool for STOPPFalls: https://kik.amc.nl/falls/decision-tree/
  • Organization T&F group on FRIDs symposium at online EuGMS Congress 2020: tot treat or not to treat: drug- versus disease-related fall risk (link to presentations)
  • Organization joint SIG Fall and Fractures and fragility fracture network (FFN) symposium at 2019 EuGMS congress in Krakow: Nutrition and fragility fractures
  • Organization joint symposium SIG Falls and Fractures and fragility fracture network (FFN) at 2018 EuGMS congress in Berlin, Germany: Osteosarcopenia: a new geriatric syndrome
  • Organization joint symposium with FFN at 2017 EuGMS congress in Nice
  • Founding of a Fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRID) Task and Finish group directed by prof. Nathalie van der Velde in 2017 (see EuGMS webpage for details and contact)
  • Founding of the FRID (Fall-Risk Increasind Drugs) Task and Finish group with Organization of a symposium at 2016 EuGMS congress in Lisbon:
    Falls and Fracture Prevention in Older Adults : a tour around Europe
  • Organization joint symposium EuGMS SIG Falls Prevention and Fracture and ProFouND/EIP on AHA and EUNAAPA at 2015 EuGMS congress in Oslo

Projects & Events

Next meeting of the group

Publications

New horizons in falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative.
Montero-Odasso M, van der Velde N, …,Masud T; Task Force on Global Guidelines for Falls in Older Adults.Age Ageing. 2021 May 26:afab076. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afab076. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34038522

Update knowledge related to fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRID) (Fall-risk-increasing drugs Task and Finish group) : Three systematic reviews on FRID, a statement paper and development of the STOPPFalls deprescribing tool:

L.J. Seppala, M. Petrovic…, N. van der Velde. STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk): a Delphi study by the EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs. Age and Ageing 2020; 1-11 doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa249

Link to accompanying deprescribing tool for STOPPFalls: https://kik.amc.nl/falls/decision-tree/

Seppala LJ, van der Velde N, Masud T, Blain H, Petrovic M, et al; EuGMS Special Interest Group on Pharmacology. EuGMS Task and Finish group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs (FRIDs): Position on Knowledge Dissemination, Management, and Future Research. Published in Drugs Aging. 2019 Apr;36(4):299-307 and Eur Geriatr Med (2019) 10: 275.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40266-018-0622-7

de Vries M, Seppala LJ, Daams JG, van de Glind EMM, Masud T, van der Velde N; EUGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs. Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: I. Cardiovascular Drugs. Published in J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Apr;19(4):371.e1-371.e9.
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(17)30698-9/abstract

Seppala LJ, Wermelink AMAT, de Vries M, Ploegmakers KJ, van de Glind EMM, Daams JG, van der Velde N; EUGMS task and Finish group on fall-risk-increasing drugs. Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: II. Psychotropics. Published in J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Apr;19(4):371.e11-371.e17.
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(17)30784-3/abstract

Seppala LJ, van de Glind EMM, Daams JG, Ploegmakers KJ, de Vries M, Wermelink AMAT, van der Velde N; EUGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs. Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: III. Others. Published in J Am Med Dir Assoc. 018 Apr;19(4):372.e1-372.e8.
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(17)30785-5/abstract

Publication of the EUGMS position paper on falls and fractures in Europe in link with EUMS, ESCO, and IOF:

Blain H, Masud T, Dargent-Molina P, Martin FC, et al. EUGMS Falls and Fracture Interest Group; European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), Osteoporosis Research and Information Group (GRIO), and International osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). A Comprehensive Fracture Prevention Strategy in Older Adults: The European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) Statement.

published in   J Nutr Health Aging. 2016;20(6):647-52.

published in Aging Clin Exp Res. 2016;28(4):797-803.

published in Eur Geriatr Med 2016 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurger.2016.04.012

Members

N° of members: 153