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FALLS

Patient and Family Resources

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Home Page: http://www.cdc.gov/
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
What You Can Do to Prevent Falls: Senior Falls: A Toolkit to Prevent Falls: Accessed March 10, 2008 from
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/toolkit/WhatYouCanDoToPreventFalls.htm

Lighthouse International. Leading resource worldwide on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation: http://www.lighthouse.org/

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Health Information:
Home Page: http://health.nih.gov/
Senior’s Health: http://health.nih.gov/search.asp/27
Falls: Falls. NIH Institute and Center Resources: http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/252

National Osteoporosis Foundation. Patient Information on Fall Prevention. Accessed March 10, 2008 from
http://www.nof.org/patientinfo/fall_prevention.htm

Temple University: The Fall Prevention Project
In-home safety check. (1997). Accessed March 10, 2008 from http://www.temple.edu/older_adult/IHSCEng.htm
Other resources on fall prevention and aging. (1999). Accessed March 10, 2008 from http://www.temple.edu/older_adult/agresou.htm

U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: Medline Plus
Links to multiple governmental, private, and professional web sites:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

United States Department of Health and Human Services: Home Page: http://www.hhs.gov/

Last updated - March 2008