About These Resources

The resources below have been selectively chosen to be useful to those interested in healthy aging programs that deal with falls prevention. Following the links below will bring you to a more detailed description of each resource and a link to the resource itself. Please contact us with comments or suggestions.

Checklists, Questionnaires and Tests

• Check for Safety: A Home Fall Prevention Checklist for Older Adults

• Fall Prevention Checklist

• Fall Prevention Programs Checklist

• Home Safety Checklists

Coalition Profile

• Falls Free Coalition

• Why Join the Coalition?

Electronic Newsletters

• Electronic Newsletters Archive: Falls Free and News From the Center

Fact Sheets/Brochures

• Alaska's Fall Prevention Flyer

• Live Stronger, Longer: Injury Prevention

• New Jersey's Fall Prevention Placemat

• NIA AgePage on Fall Prevention

• North Carolina's Fall Prevention Awareness Flyer

• Patient Resources on Falls in Older Adults

• Pennsylvania's Falls Prevention Awareness Day Fact Sheet

• Preventing Falls

• What YOU Can Do to Prevent Falls

Falls Prevention Awareness Day Proclamation

• Alaska's Senior Fall Prevention Week Proclamation

• Kentucky's Proclamation of Falls Prevention Awareness Day

• Missouri's Proclamation of Falls Prevention Awareness Day

• National Falls Prevention Awareness Day Resolution

• New Jersey's Fall Prevention Awareness Week Proclamation

• North Carolina's Fall Prevention Awareness Week Proclamation

• Washington's Proclamation of Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Legislation

• Falls Free Coalition Issues Call to Action for Congress: Press Release

• Letter to Congress in Support of Additional Funding for Falls Prevention

Manuals and Guides

• Evidence Based Health Promotion: Resources for Planning: No. 3 Falls Prevention

• Guidelines for the Prevention of Falls in Older Persons

• Resource Guide On Building State Coalitions for Fall Prevention

• State Coalitions on Fall Prevention: A Compendium of Initiatives

Media Releases

• Alaska's Senior Fall Prevention Week Press Release

• Creative Programs and Practices to Affect Home Safety Assessments and Modifications

• March 31, 2005: Health and Safety Leaders Launch Coalition to Address the Risk of Fall Related Injuries for Older Adults

• March 9, 2005: Health and Safety Leaders Launch National Action Plan to Reduce the Risk of Fall Related Injuries for Older Adults

• Massachusetts' Falls Prevention Awareness Day- Press Release

• National Falls Prevention Awareness Day- Press Release

• North Carolina's Falls Prevention Awareness Day- Press Release

News Coverage

• Falls Free Movement Gains Momentum

Presentation Slides

• Creative Practices to Affect Home Safety Assessments and Modifications of Older Adults At-Risk (Critical Elements)

• Creative Practices to Affect Home Safety Assessments and Modifications of Older Adults At-Risk (Policy)

• Creative Practices to Affect Home Safety Assessments and Modifications of Older Adults At-Risk (Role of Professional)

• Creative Programs and Practices to Affect Home Safety Assessments and Modifications

• Fall Prevention: Making a Difference Through Collaboration

• Fall Prevention: Making a Difference Through Collaboration (as presented at n4a)

• Fall Prevention: National Action Plan- Leading the Way

• Fall Prevention: Sustainability through Collaboration

• Falls Free: Promoting a National Falls Prevention Action Plan

• Fostering State and Local Community Action to Reduce Falls and Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults

• Fostering State and Local Community Action to Reduce Falls and Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults (California)

• Fostering State and Local Community Action to Reduce Falls and Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults (Maine)

• Innovative Approaches to Falls Prevention

• Symposium: Views about Falls and Fall Prevention from Older Adults at Senior Centers

• Symposium: What Elders Tell Us [About Injury Prevention/ Health Promotion Programs]

Program Summary

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: A Matter of Balance

Project Description

• Falls Free Initiative Overview

Reports

• A New Vision of Aging: Helping Older Adults Make Healthier Choices

• A Review of the Literature on Best Practices in Falls Prevention for Residents of Long Term Care Facilities

• Creative Practices in Home Safety Assessment and Modification Study

• Falls Free National Advisory Group Meeting Report

• Falls Free: Promoting a National Falls Prevention Action Plan: Environmental Scan

• Falls Free: Promoting a National Falls Prevention Action Plan: National Action Plan

• Falls Free: Promoting a National Falls Prevention Action Plan: Research Review Papers

• MMWR- Self-Reported Falls and Fall-Related Injuries Among Persons Aged 65 and Older

• National Expert Meeting on Qi Gong and Tai Chi- Consensus Report

• Nonvertebral Fracture Prevention, Determinants of Bone Strength & Importance of Calcium (3 articles)

• Prevention of Falls and Injuries Among the Elderly: A Special Report from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer

• Progress Report on the Falls Free National Action Plan

• U.S. Fall Prevention Programs for Seniors: Selected Programs Using Home Assessment and Modification

Resource List

• Example Activities for Falls Prevention Awareness Day

• Fall Prevention Resource List

Toolkits

• A Matter of Balance: Replication Report

• A Toolkit to Prevent Senior Falls

• Falls Toolkit

• National Center for Patient Safety 2004 Falls Toolkit

Websites - Health Information

• Fall Prevention Center of Excellence

• Home Safety Council

• National Resource Center for Safe Aging

Websites - Organizations

• Maine Partnership for Healthy Aging: A Matter of Balance

• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

• ProFaNE: Prevention of Falls Network Europe

White Papers

• Preventing Falls in Older Californians: State of the Art