The 2011 Senior Falls Awareness Day webcast is part of National Falls Prevention Awareness Day. The webcast (9-10:30 a.m. Friday) is to provide health-care professionals dealing with adults over age 60 with quality information on balance assessment and falls prevention.

The webcast objectives are to help physicians and nurses:

• Understand the magnitude of the senior falls problem and how it impacts Florida.
• Learn how to perform a risk assessment for senior falls.
• Determine how to implement screening for high-risk fallers in an office-based setting.
• Learn about the effects of traumatic brain injury and the Brain Injury Association.
• Find out why physicians should recommend Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance as a fall prevention intervention.

Register for the live broadcast by visiting: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZNQDRCY