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Falls are the Leading Cause of Injury-Related Emergency Room Visits

 

Take control of your safety - According to the Ohio Department of Health, falls are the leading cause of injury-related emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths among older Ohioans. One in three older adults will fall this year. However, falls are not a normal part of aging and most falls can be prevented with minor changes to your home, health and habits.

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Food Safety in Older Adults

Food safety is a concern for everyone but older adults should be especially concerned. For this reason, the US Government produces a book about food safety for older adults over the age of 65, it can be downloaded from their web site by clicking here.

Fall Prevention

Each year millions of older adults fall and suffer injuries that require hospitalization or extended recovery periods. On average, every 2.3 seconds, a person over the age of 65 will fall.

In 2000, falls among older adults cost the U.S. health care system over $19 billion dollars. With the population aging, both the number of falls and the costs to treat fall injuries are likely to increase.

One in three adults age 65 and older falls each year. Of those who fall, 20% to 30% suffer moderate to severe injuries that make it hard for them to get around or live independently, and increase their risk of early death. Older adults are hospitalized for fall-related injuries five times more often than they are for injuries from other causes.

In 2008, emergency departments treated 2.1 million nonfatal fall injuries among older adults; more than 559,000 of these patients had to be hospitalized.

The web site, Learn Not To Fall, is dedicated to teaching older adults and their families about fall risks and what to do if they should fall.

Other resources:

Temple University's In-Home Safety for Fall Prevention Check List

Temple University's Check It Out - Some things you can do to reduce your risk of falling.

Finding Community Resources to Help the Caregiver Care for Their Loved One

Caregiving is sacred work and often the caregiver is a family member who steps up to the plate when the need arises, often during a medical crisis.


Caregivers need to know about the resources in their community - the help that is available - to help them continue to care for their loved one. In the United States, our government has many programs - just knowing where to start esearching for resources can be difficult.

Brethren Retirement Community, located in Greenville, OH, has over a century of experience caring for those who cared for you.


Brethren Home Community Services offers non-medical homecare in the Greater Dayton area and operates the "Shuff Club" Adult Day Center on our Greenville campus. Both in-home non-medical care and adult day services, provide a welcome repsite for caregivers.

For more information please give us a call 937-547-7600

Our government has federal and state programs in place to assist family caregivers in caring for their loved one.

The Eldercare Locator, is a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging and your first step for finding local agencies, in every U.S. community, that can help older persons and their families access home and community-based services like transportation, meals, home care, and caregiver support services.

To begin, click on the link below to enter your criteria below or call them at 800.677.1116.
Click here to enter your search information

We urge you to seek help before you actually need it - the process to sign up for these programs is often lengthy and can take many months to get approval.