Online Fall Prevention Course Now Available

by your Aging in Stride team

The latest addition to the Aging in Stride Support Center website is a fun, easy online course: Preventing Falls: a Self-Study Workshop for Seniors and Caregivers.

The course covers the causes, risk factors and prevention of falls, including:

• Your own falls risk assessment
  
  
• How a team approach can help
  
  
• Steps to "fall-proofing" your home
  
  
• Fall prevention exercise videos hosted by Aging in Stride author Christine Himes, MD, Director of Geriatrics at Group Health Cooperative in          Seattle, WA
  
  
• Self-test to see how you're doing

It's quick and easy to register, and you can take the course as many times as you like.

Look for additional free online courses coming up on the Aging In Stride Support Center. We'll alert you in future issues of Aging In Stride Bi-Monthly e-Newsletter!