Clinical Webinar
Seating, sitting out, and preventing deconditioning: The Hours Between Therapy Visits
A FREE 90-minute webinar for occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, therapy leads and case managers
📅 Thursday 24th September 2026 | 🕐 11:30am UK Time
Your contact time with a patient is a small slice of someone’s week. Everything else happens in the hours in between, and that is where deconditioning is either prevented or produced.
Older people in hospital spend around 83% of measured time lying in bed, with a median of 43 minutes a day standing or walking. But this is not a hospital problem. It is an inactivity problem, and it happens just as readily in a care home or in someone’s own armchair between your visits.
This session is about those hours, and about why a sound plan to get someone up so often fails before lunchtime.
Why attend:
- Expert guest speaker: Fran Edmondson, Advanced Clinical Practitioner OT, has led therapy teams across acute medicine, critical care, stroke and neuro rehab, and now leads adult pathways in independent practice.
- Understand why people go back to bed: Discomfort is the most frequently cited barrier of all, which makes the chair a clinical variable rather than furniture.
- Get the current guidance in one place: Deconditioning is now named directly in NHS England’s Model discharge pathway and has its own British Geriatrics Society hub.
- Live demonstration: 🪑 See the seating features that decide whether someone sits for twenty minutes or two hours.
Topics covered and learning objectives:
✅ What deconditioning is, how fast it starts, and why it is driven by inactivity rather than age
✅ The harms and costs, for the person and for the system
✅ Why an inpatient stay accelerates the risk, and how much of that risk follows someone home
✅ How to prevent it, and why sitting out of bed is a distinct intervention that does not need to wait for walking
✅ How long someone should actually sit out for, and the guidance behind the answer
✅ The hidden harms of inappropriate seating, and how the wrong chair gets recorded as a patient problem
✅ Why sitting is not risk free, and how to bring chair time and bed time into one repositioning plan
✅ The falls paradox: how restricting someone to prevent a fall makes a fall more likely
✅ What a chair should provide, as a specification you can use to justify a recommendation
✅ A live chair demonstration and live Q&A
This session is for you if you:
- Work with people who spend more of the day sitting or lying than anyone intends
- Have written “did not tolerate sitting out” and wondered whether the chair was the reason
- Need to justify better seating to a funder, panel or procurement team
- Support people at home between visits and want those hours to count
🚨 Limited spaces available. Almost 1000 professionals registered for a recent session.
⭐ “I am feeling much more confident in seating assessments”
⭐ “The best use of an hour”
⭐ “A privilege receiving training from OTs and others who are currently working in the industry”
💡 Please register even if you cannot attend live. The session is recorded and sent to everyone who signs up, along with the slides.
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