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The Michigan Trauma Coalition provides information on fall prevention.
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Pocket Guide for Preventing Falls in Older Patients
This CDC guide provides easy-to-reference information on fall prevention.
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CDC STEADI
Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) is a CDC resource for medical providers and adults to prevent falls.
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Overdose and Fall Risk Concentration among Benzodiazepine Users
BZD prescribing to older adults continues despite decades of evidence demonstrating the risk for significant injury from both falls and OD. In the face of continued use, specific recommendations for ...
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Unintended Consequences of Medicare Policies for Post-Hospital Injuries among Older Adults
Falls remain a worrisome public threat that is growing with the aging of the US population and the recent pandemic. Risk factors are well established and numerous effective interventions exist, ...
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Geoffrey Hoffman
Dr. Hoffman is a health services researcher and gerontologist. His research focuses on quality of care and Medicare policies affecting utilization and injury for older adults. Specific topics of interest include how ...
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Unintended Consequences of Medicare Policy for Post-Hospital Injuries among Older Adults
The proposed project addresses prevention of older adult falls. Falls remain a worrisome public threat that is growing with the aging of the US population and the recent pandemic. Risk ...
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Overdose and Fall Risk Concentration among Benzodiazepine Users
Unintentional injury is a significant burden and source of premature mortality for aging Americans: in 2016, there were 53,141 deaths due to unintentional injury among adults 65 and older (“older ...
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Neil Alexander
Dr. Alexander serves as the Older Adult Falls Content Lead at the U-M Injury Prevention Center. He is the Ivan Duff Collegiate Professor of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine in the ...
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