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Help Keep Senior Citizens Stable With Fall Prevention Tips Help Keep Senior Citizens Stable With Fall Prevention Tips
Help Keep Senior Citizens Stable With Fall Prevention Tips While slips and falls are rare occurrences and don't often result in serious injuries for most of the population, for the elderly, losing one's footing and falling to the ground can have very dangerous side effects and severely impact overall health. The bad news: one in three falls among adults 65 and over leads to a traumatic injury, such as a hip fracture. The good news: you have more control over falls than you might think. “Falls are preventable and predictable,” said Angela Katz, trauma injury prevention and outreach coordinator at the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHeal…

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