Evaluation and Development of Falls prevention evaluation and development for older adults in the community (FrEDA)

Objective

​GERI is proud to be the host institution and lead Principal Investigator for the FrEDAstudy, a cross-institutional collaborative project (2019 –2022) awarded under the National Innovation Challenge (NIC) on Active and Confident Ageing Grant Call on Falls Prevention.

This 3-million dollar study harnesses the capabilities of multi-institutions to understand motivation to participation in fall screening and interventions among community-dwelling older adults with different fall risks.

The FrEDA study also aims to develop and evaluate an acceptable and sustainable fall prevention ecosystem based on a behaviour change model to improve the participation of older adults in falls screening, assessment and fall prevention programmes.

This study is carried out within the Central and North regions of Singapore, and focuses its research on three domains:

Economic, health system delivery and social behavioural, for both individual and system level approaches.

Collaborators

1. NUS Global Asia Institute(GAI)

2. Yishun Health (YH)

3. Woodlands Health Campus (WHC)

4. Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH)

5. Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT)

6. Duke-NUS Medical School

7. University of Southern California

8. Monash University

9. Ministry of Health (MOH)