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:
Staying Independent for Life
Hauppauge
Friday, April 21,
2017, from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Hauppauge
Public Library
601 Veterans
Memorial Hwy
Hauppauge, NY
11788
To register call 631-979-1600
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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