Falls in the Home and Community

Resources for Journalists

• Report on Injuries
• Estimating the Costs of Unintentional Injuries
• Resources on Falls and Fall Prevention

Links

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • A Tool Kit to Prevent Senior Falls
  • The Cost of Falls Injuries
  • Trends in Health and Aging
  • Injury and mortality statistics
• National Institutes of Health
  • Senior Health Information
• Administration on Aging
  • Fact sheets on falls related topics
• Office of the Surgeon General
  • Bone Health and Osteoporosis

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

• Home Safety Checklist

Veteran's Administration
National Center for Patient Safety

• Fall Prevention and Management aide

Articles

• Protecting the Elderly from Falls
• Falls Pose a Serious Threat to the Elderly
• Tips to Help You Care for Aging Parents
• Designing Safe Homes for the Elderly
• Prevention of Same Level Falls
• Fall-Proofing Your Home
• Osteoporosis and Fall Injuries
• NSC: Estimating the Costs of Unintentional Injuries
• NSC Fact Sheet: Keeping Kids Safe from Home Falls
• NSC Fact Sheet: Preventing Slips and Falls in the Home

Other Resources

• “Injury Among Older Adults” (.pdf, 73 KB, from Consumer Product Safety Commission)
• CPSC Fall Prevention Poster (.pdf, 1.6 MB)
• CPSC Fall Prevention Poster in Spanish (.pdf 1.7 MB)
• NSC: Fall Prevention Quiz
• NSC: Report on Injuries in America
• Falls Free Coalition launched (press release)
• More Resources and Links

CDC Healthy Aging: Fall Prevention Project

• Overview

White House Conference on Aging

• Falls Among Older Adults: A National Problem
  (NSC White Paper prepared for the 2005
  White House Conference on Aging)