Falls Prevention and Risk Reduction Resources
APTA Resources (from Physical Fitness for Special Populations)
Falls Risk Reduction in Older Adults Pocket Guide
(.pdf) (Members Only)
Falls Risk Reduction in Older Adults Pocket Guide
References (.pdf) (Members Only)
Multi-media Web-based Resources
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
This site includes information for clinicians, consumers, and educators
and a number of links to additional programs and resources. Resources
and tools such as fact sheets, data and statistics information, and
downloadable brochures and posters are available.
CDC's Injury Center has created the following new resources for
community organizations, seniors and caregivers. All of the materials
are available online for download at no cost. We encourage you to share
this information and promote it throughout your organization.
Preventing Falls: What Works. A Compendium of Effective
Community-based Interventions from Around the World presents 14
randomized control interventions with proven effectiveness in reducing
falls among older adults. This resource gives public health
practitioners and community-based organizations relevant details about a
variety of interventions that use exercise, home modification, or
multifaceted strategies. www.cdc.gov/ncipc/preventingfalls
Preventing Falls: How to Develop Community-based Fall
Prevention Programs for Older Adults provides community-based
organizations a guide for developing fall prevention programs. This
useful 'how-to' guide describes the building blocks of effective fall
prevention programs, and gives examples, resources, and tips for program
creation, promotion, and evaluation. www.cdc.gov/ncipc/preventingfalls
"Help Seniors Live Better, Longer: Prevent Brain
Injury" is an initiative to raise awareness among children of
older adults and other caregivers about ways to prevent, recognize, and
respond to fall-related TBI in adults 75 and older. This initiative
features easy-to-use English- and Spanish-language materials and event
and media guides for organizations interested in raising awareness. www.cdc.gov/BrainInjuryinSeniors
Falls Free Coalition
The Falls Free Coalition is a group of national organizations, including
the APTA, and state coalitions working to reduce the growing number of
falls and fall-related injuries among older adults. This site provides a
link to the National Action Plan in addition to numerous resources and
tools for falls prevention including brochures, presentations,
legislative updates, etc.
Falls
Prevention in Older Adults
The objective of this project is to inform and educate older adults,
students and educators, and clinicians about the causes of falls in
older adults, and the assessment, rehabilitative, and health promotion
measures which can be taken to reduce the risk of falls in this age
group. This site includes brochures on home safety tips, causes of
falls, and prevention in multiple languages, program manuals, and
various training tools.
Stop Falls
This site identifies best practices in fall prevention and helps
communities offer fall prevention programs to older people who are at
risk of falling as a service of the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence
created by the California Fall Prevention Consortium (CFPC). This Web
site includes information for clinicians, consumers, and educators and a
number of links to additional resources.
Aging
in the Know
Welcome to Aging in the Know: Your Gateway to Health and Aging
Resources on the Web. Created by the American Geriatrics Society
Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA), Aging in the Know offers
up-to-date information for consumers on health and aging. This site
links to a falls resources page which includes a number of resources
related to falls prevention. Resources include FAQs on falls and balance
problems, a consumer prevention pamphlet, choosing and starting an
exercise program and much more.
APTA CEU Articles
- Falls in Community Dwelling Older Adults: Introduction to the
Problem
- Falls in Community Dwelling Older Adults: Examination and
Evaluation
- Falls in Community Dwelling Older Adults: Reducing Patient Falls in
Inpatient Settings
To read the above CEU Articles, click here to enter the APTA Learning Center. Find
the print-based course and click "view full description."
APTA Online Courses
- Balance and Falls: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
- Balance and Falls: Functional Assessment
- Balance and Falls: Intervention Strategies
- Balance and Falls: The Physiology of Aging
- Geriatrics: Fear of Falling in Older Adults: Evidence-Based
Strategies for Examination and Intervention Management
To access the above online courses, click
here to enter the Learning Center.
APTA Public Health Initiatives Resource Center
APTA Public Health Initiatives Resource Center
Working individually and in coalition with other organizations, APTA has
increased its efforts to support enactment of legislation to address
public health issues related to physical therapy including prevention of
injuries related to falls.
Additional Resources
What You Need To Know About Balance And Falls
(.pdf)
Balance and Falls Awareness Event Kit (.pdf)
Transforming Fall
Prevention Practices Conference
This conference will provide participants with research, best practices,
and lessons learned in preventing and managing mobility- related adverse
events with a primary focus on falls and a secondary focus on
wandering/elopement.
[Last updated: 10/14/09 | Contact: practice-dept@apta.org]
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