Commissioner of Health Services, Dr. James Tomarken invites
mature residents to attend the county’s national award-winning program focused
on falls prevention. The program is intended to empower mature adults to carry
out behaviors that reduce the risks of falls and improve their quality of life.
These programs are ‘Stepping On’, a CDC model program,
comprises a seven-week course that focuses on
balance and strength, home and community safety, vision, safe footwear and
medication review. The program has proven to reduce the number of falls for
participants by 31 percent. A second option entitled “Staying Independent for Life” covers much of the information that
is provided in the ‘Stepping On’ program in a condensed two-hour session.
Between 2011 and 2016 these programs
collectively reached over 11,406 senior citizens to teach them about how to
prevent falls in the home and live independently.
The program will be offered as follows:
‘Stepping On’
Kings Park
Workshop dates and times:
Tuesday, March
14, 21, 28; April 4, 11, 18,
25, 2017, 10:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Martin Luther
Terrace Apartments
116 Wartburg Court
Kings Park, NY
11754
To register call
631-853-7214
Wyandanch
Workshop dates and times:
Wednesday, March 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2016,
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Wyandanch Senior
Center
28 Wyandanch Ave.
Wyandanch, NY
11798
To register call 631-491-4889
West Islip
Workshop
dates and times:
Thursday, March 16 23, 30, April 6,13,20, 27, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
West
Islip Public Library
3 Higbie Lane
West Islip, NY 11795
To register call 631-661-7080
Southampton
Workshop
dates and times:
Friday,
March 24, 31, April 7,14,21, 28, May 5, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Stony
Brook Southampton Campus
39 Tuckahoe Rd.
Southampton, NY 11968
To register call 631-444-8385
Staying Independent for Life
Amityville
Friday ,March 31, 2017, from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Amityville Public Library
Corner Oak and John Street
Amityville, NY 11701
To register call 631-264-0567
Additional programs will be
rolled out in communities throughout Suffolk County over the course of the
year. For more information about Suffolk County Falls Prevention Programs, call
the Suffolk County Department of Health Services at 631-853-6492 or visit: www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/HealthServices/PreventiveMedicine/PublicHealthNursing
Watch
this video to learn more about what your peers are doing at Suffolk County’s
falls-prevention programs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsoHmjJvN8&feature=youtu.be
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