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Falls Prevention Classes Offer Mature Residents a Greater Chance to Stay Independent for Life

 

Commissioner of Health Services, Dr. James Tomarken invites mature residents to attend the county’s national award-winning program focused on falls prevention. The program is intended to empower mature adults to carry out behaviors that reduce the risks of falls and improve their quality of life.

 

These programs are Stepping On’, a CDC model program, comprises a seven-week course that focuses on balance and strength, home and community safety, vision, safe footwear and medication review. The program has proven to reduce the number of falls for participants by 31 percent. A second option entitled “Staying Independent for Life” covers much of the information that is provided in the ‘Stepping On’ program in a condensed two-hour session.

 

Between 2011 and 2016 these programs collectively reached over 11,406 senior citizens to teach them about how to prevent falls in the home and live independently.

 

The program will be offered as follows:

 

Staying Independent for Life

 

 

Wyandanch

             Wednesday, February 15, 2017 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

 Wyandanch Senior Center

 28 Wyandanch Ave,

 Wyandanch, NY 11798

 To register call  631-491-4889

 

 

 

West Islip

             Wednesday, February 22, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

 West Islip Public Library

 3 Higbie Lane

 West Islip, NY 11795

 To register call 631-661-7080

 

Kings Park

             Tuesday, February 28 2017 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

  Martin Luther Terrace Apartments

  116 Wartburg Court

  Kings Park, NY 11754

  To register call 631-853-7214

 

 

 

 

 

Additional programs will be rolled out in communities throughout Suffolk County over the course of the year. For more information about Suffolk County Falls Prevention Programs, call the Suffolk County Department of Health Services at 631-853-6492 or visit: www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/HealthServices/PreventiveMedicine/PublicHealthNursing

 

Watch this video to learn more about what your peers are doing at Suffolk County’s falls-prevention programs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsoHmjJvN8&feature=youtu.be

 

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