Falls Prevention Awareness Resource Fair: Stand Up to Falls

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Program Type:

Health & Human Services

Age Group:

Adults

Program Description

Event Details

1 in 4 Americans aged 65 or older fall each year. An important part of your health and wellness depends on preventing falls at home. Explore how medication, strength/balance, hearing, and vision can affect your risk for falls and ways you can prevent falls. This event will include short presentations from experts in various fields including a physical therapist, gerontology primary care nurse practitioner, and a representative from the Prescott Fire Department.

 

This event is presented by Yavapai County Community Health Services, NACOG Aging, Pate Complete Healthcare, and the Northern Chapter of the Arizona Falls Prevention Coalition (AFPC). For more information, call 928-442-5372.