Prevent injuries with fall prevention by Sandy Goldstein — Falling is one of the leading causes of unintentional injuries in the United States, accounting for approximately 8.9 million visits to the emergency room annually. One in three people over the age of 65 will fall every year and, many times, they will be repeat falls. […]
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“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
September 14, 2012
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by Marc Katz — A few years ago there was a commercial whose tagline proclaimed, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” As we age, we are faced with a different series of problems than those we faced in our youth, the most prevalent of which is falling, sometimes fatally. Falls are becoming more […]
October 21, 2014
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