20251205 Quality Alliance 65+ Lunch and Learn Series: Falls and Frailty

December 5, 2025

Older adults are at heightened risk for frailty and falls, yet clinical practice often lacks consistency in screening and management. Many clinicians underutilize validated assessment tools and fail to implement comprehensive, multifactorial interventions such as medication review, exercise programs, and environmental modifications. These gaps contribute to preventable falls, functional decline, and increased hospitalizations.

Target Audience

Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Residents, and Nurses. 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to

  • Define the clinical syndrome of frailty and its phenotypic components.
  • Demonstrate how to use validated tools for assessing frailty and fall risk (e.g., Clinical Frailty Scale, Palliative Performance Scale, Timed Up and Go (TUG), Tinetti, STEADI algorithm, Sit to Stand Test.)
  • Analyze evidence-based interventions for preventing and mitigating frailty and falls, including exercise programs, nutritional strategies, medication optimization, and environmental modifications.
  • Apply interdisciplinary care strategies for frail older adults including coordination with physical and occupational therapy, care management for patient education, care coordination and supportive palliative care.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
  • 1.00 Attendance
  • 1.00 Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners
    This offering is approved for 1.00 CEU. Scott and White provider number CS4934 has been awarded Provider Status by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners. This approval meets criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements for relicensure as established by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.
Course opens: 
12/05/2025
Course expires: 
01/05/2026
Event starts: 
12/05/2025 - 12:00pm CST
Event ends: 
12/05/2025 - 1:00pm CST
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Virtual via Teams
Temple, TX
United States

FACULTY DISCLOSURE: Jennifer Heffernan, MD and Brenda Kinzler, PT, DPT, CEEAA have no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

PLANNER DISCLOSURE: The planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing CE: Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Social Work: This program has been screened and determined to be related to the practice of social work to the best of our ability. The Behavioral Health Executive Council will make the final determination as to whether the activity claimed by the licensee is directly related to the practice of social work. 

 

 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
  • 1.00 Attendance
  • 1.00 Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners
    This offering is approved for 1.00 CEU. Scott and White provider number CS4934 has been awarded Provider Status by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners. This approval meets criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements for relicensure as established by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.
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