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Going Outdoors: Falls, Ageing & ResilienceThe Challenge (continued...)Accessing and working with international experts – perhaps need to also add UK experts, and acrossa broad range of disciplines. The challenge here is working with rather than just disseminating to,and timing this within the project. Perhaps a targeted and small group of international expertsbrought together as a virtual group.Workshops – Initial Thoughts1. Joint workshop with Living Streets at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh,3-5 July 2012.2. Joint Workshop with Age UK at British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, Keele, 11-13July 2012 or possibly 2013 focussing on findings; ditto Age UK Annual Conference ‘Agenda forLater Life’ held in March in London.3. Joint Workshop with Greater Glasgow and Clyde Community (GC&C) Falls Prevention Programmeat World Congress on Active Ageing, Glasgow, 13-17 August 2012.4. Joint workshop with Living Streets or Pedestrian Association and the Chartered Institute ofHighways and Transportation, and Department for Transport, perhaps at Annual Conference,Traffex, or similar.Other aspects of Knowledge Transfer (recognising that there is limited budget)Trevor Cox suggestion of providing a poor pavement reporting service“Last month my father in law fell again in Sheffield city centre and broke his hip. (so-so prognosis). Ashop owner who helped in the aftermath commented that several people had fallen at the samepoint in recent weeks. This distressing incident got me thinking about a possible public engagementactivity about falls.Have any of you come across the pot-hole reporting site run by the Cycle T<strong>our</strong>ing Club (CTC)? You goon-line http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/ (or there is an app) and provide details of the pot-hole.These are then forwarded to the local authority who then repair it (usually quite efficiently becauseotherwise they risk being sued if there is an accident caused by the pot hole).I wondered if there was a similar mass-participation activity around pedestrian and falls wherepeople report trip hazards? Draw up a map of trip hazards and find out the most common problems,the worst and best cities etc. This would be a way of raising awareness of fall prevention among thegeneral public.Maybe there is some useful results you could take from the data (the most common trip hazards,what most worries people etc.)? You have probably seen similar public surveys in the news (RSPBand garden birds is the most famous). One academic use for the data is longitudinal studies, are <strong>our</strong>cities getting better or worse? I have no idea about funders (Pedestrian Association?), but Iwondered if you thought this is an idea worth further discussion?”