Falls are a major healthcare challenge worldwide accounting for 14% of all emergency department presentations and 17 million disability adjusted life years worldwide. It causes morbidity and mortality and is expensive accounting for 0.85-1.5% of total healthcare expenditure in the US, Europe and Australia. This talk aims to set the scene for falls and polypharmacy, introduce the world falls guidelines for prevention and management in relation to medicines management and introduce FRIDS (falls risk inducing drugs). I will then cover what we should be doing as clinicians before prescribing FRIDS and introduce deprescribing; what it is, reasons for deprescribing, how to go about it, deprescribing tools and barriers to deprescribing. The talk will touch on deprescribing psychiatric medicines and finally cover discontinuation syndromes to watch out for.

• 1. Learn about the world falls guidelines in relation to Medicines management
• 2. Know about FRIDS
• 3. Learn about deprescribing including tools to aid deprescribing
• 4. Learn about clinical presentation of deprescribing tools
• 5. be able to consider deprescribing of Psychiatric medicines and know where to get relevant information