Falls - older adults

This newly updated page from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) provides access to several resources on falls in older adults including:

• fact sheets on costs, hip fractures, and falls in nursing homes
• CDC research and falls prevention activities;
• CDC compendium of effective community-based interventions from around the world
• how to develop community-based falls prevention programmes
• brochures and posters which are available in English, Spanish and Chinese
• podcasts