Preventative Measures
Equipment and supplies that is used for medical reasons.
What is Durable Medical Equipment?
Second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths.
What are falls?
The length of time a person has lived or a thing has existed.
What is age?
Safely taking and administering medications.
What is medication awareness?
Place that treats about 3 million older adults each year according to the CDC.
What is the Emergency Room?
A substance used for medical treatment.
What is medication?
Bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy.
What is physical activity?
Where 74% of falls occur.
What is indoors?
Inability of visual perception.
What are vision problems?
Building strength to improve posture and coordination.
How do you improve your balance?
People this specific age and older are likely to fall.
Who is 65 years of age and older?
Problems with a person's ability to think.
What is cognitive impairment?
Ensure living space has good lighting, is clutter free, there is no loose floorboards/carpeting, and furniture is at a height that is easy for you to get up and down.
What is home safety?
The ratio of older adults that fall each year.
What is 1:4 adults?
Plantar Fasciitis.
What is foot pain?