Falls Prevention
As we age, we are at increased risk for falls. Falls can lead to injury and even hospitalization. Nutrition programs can team up with internal or external partners to help prevent falls by educating participants about the risk factors and how to address them through exercise, home modifications, assistive devices, and more.
Briefs
- Falls Prevention for Older Adults— NCOA's steps for staying safe
- Falls Prevention: Tips To Prevent Falls— Falls prevention measures from Mayo Clinic
- Prevent Falls and Fractures— How to prevent falls from the National Institute on Aging
Guides
- How To Use Incentives: A Guide for ACL CDSME and Falls Prevention Grantees— NCOA overview of the
most common types of incentives and how to use them effectively - Falls Prevention Programs: Saving Lives, Saving Money— NCOA infographic on community-based programs reducing the risk of falls
Fact Sheets
- Falls Prevention Fact Sheet— Ten steps from Caring Senior Service to help prevent falls and sustain older adults’ quality of life
- No-Fall Zone: Fall Prevention Tips for Seniors— Accessible Home Health Care highlights the cause of falls around certain parts of the home and ways to prevent falls
- Nutrition & Fall Prevention— VA fact sheet on the connection between nutrition and fall prevention
Tools & Toolkits
- Falls Prevention Awareness Week Toolkit— Toolkit hosted by NCOA and the Falls Free Initiative
- How To Recruit Older Adults for Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs on Social Media— NCOA toolkit to help your organization recruit more older adults to your evidence-based falls prevention programs
- Falls Prevention Conversation Guide for Caregivers— Falls prevention activities from NCOA to empower caregivers to assist loved ones
Presentations
- Building Partnerships, Building Capacity: Connecting Grantees in Falls Prevention and Home Modification To Support Aging in Place and Community Living— NCOA webinar designed to connect ACL grantees with grantees of the Older Adult Home Modification Program (free registration required to view the video)
Resources
- 6 Falls Prevention Steps to Help Your Older Loved Ones— NCOA article
- What Medications Increase the Risk of Falling Among Older Adults?— NCOA article
- 4 Tips to Help You Talk to Older Adults About Preventing Falls— NCOA article
- How to Prevent Falls with Home Safety Modifications— NCOA article
- 4 Ways Falls Prevention and CDSME Grantees are Reaching Underserved Populations— NCOA article
- Collecting Participant and Partner Data for ACL Chronic Disease Self-Management and Falls Prevention Evidence-Based Programs— NCOA tip sheet
- Adapting Evidence‑Based Falls Prevention Programs for Remote Delivery — Implementation Insights Through the RE‑AIM Evaluation Framework to Promote Health Equity— In-depth implementation evaluation of remotely delivered evidence-based falls prevention programs
- National Falls Prevention Resource Center for Professionals— NCOA-hosted resource center