Fall-in-Age Project

Innovative Training for Technology-based Frailty and Falls Management

Fall-in-Age is an open online course focused on the use of different biomechanical technologies/methodologies for the evaluation of frailty in elderly people, also aiming at the reduction of the number of falls and other related conditions.

The course will be developed considering the current technologies used in clinical environments and in academia. Hence, its contents are recommended for medical doctors, nurses and other allied health professionals in the field of geriatrics and long-term care delivery, as well as researchers and students interested in these topics.

Information on the state of the project and its contents is presented in this section. The final version of the online course will be hosted on IBV Virtual Campus (https://campus.ibv.org/).

Stay tuned for more information!

Fall-in-Age Course Guide

Course Structure

  • 4 Modules (3 lessons each)
    • Introduction, Background & Fundamental Concepts
    • Introduction to Bodily Harm Assessment
    • Reduction of Frailty and Fall Risk
    • Impact of Addressing Frailty Prevention & Management Interventions on Individuals and Society
  • Strengthen Activities
  • Extension Activities
  • Self-Evaluation Questionnaires
  • Final Exam
  • Online Support
  • Internet forum

  • 40 hours including autonomous work (~1.5 ECTS)

  • Approval Certificate


Course Registration

Registration on the online course is closed.


The consortium is reviewing the course structure and contents considering the inputs of the pilot course participants and external experts.

The final version of the course in 4 languages (English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) will be ready soon.

Stay tuned for more information!

Fall-in-Age Pilot Course



Past Activities

Output 1 - Development of the Course Curriculum (2018-2019):

- Analysis of the state-of-art on Frailty and Falls prevention;
- Survey of the current and future technologies used in clinical environments for Frailty and Falls prevention;
- Definition of the course learning objectives, course syllabus, evaluation and self-assessment methods, and recognition framework;

A Multiplier Event focused on the application of biomechanical systems in the field of Frailty and Falls prevention will take place in Lisbon in the summer of 2019. The workshop is intended for students, researchers and specialists in the area of Biomechanics, Healthcare and Geriatrics.


Fall-in-Age Contents Curriculum

If you are interested in participating, please contact fallinage@tecnico.ulisboa.pt or follow our social media for more information. Closer to the event debut, an online participation form will be hosted in this section.


Output 2 - Implementation of the Pilot Course in English (2019-2020):

- Development of the course contents: documents, presentations, videos, podcasts, questionnaires, among others;
- Integration of the contents in the IBV Virtual Campus (http://campus.ibv.org/)
- Pilot course testing and evaluation by national and international students;
- Validation of the course by a panel of external experts.

A Multiplier Event will be held in Italy at an intermediate stage of the Intellectual Output to disseminate the pilot course to possible participants.


Fall-in-Age course development


Current Activities

Output 3 - Final version of the Online Open Course (Winter 2020)

- Evaluation of the pilot course;
- Update of course contents, considering the pilot course inputs;
- Implementation of the final version of the online course;
- Translation of the course contents to different languages: Portuguese, Spanish and Italian;
- Exploitation of the project.

A Multiplier Event will be held at the end of the project to present the final version of the course to partners and stakeholders. The event will be integrated in an EGPRN conference and will share the major outputs of the project to medical doctors around Europe.


Fall-in-Age course final



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