STEADI Materials for Your Older Adult Patients
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Falls affect us all—whether personally or someone we love or care about. Every second of every day an older adult falls. In 2015 alone, more than one in four older adults reported falling and more than 28,000 older adults died as a result of falls—that’s 74 older adults every day. There are simple steps you can take to prevent falls and decrease falls risks. CDC developed the STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries) initiative which includes educational materials and tools to improve fall prevention.
Family Caregivers: Protect your Loved Ones from Falling
Brochure for family caregivers with steps to help prevent older adult falls.
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Check for Safety Brochure
Encourage patients to use to help identify and eliminate fall hazards in their home.
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Stay Independent Brochure
Offers a checklist providers and patients can use to check for risk of falling.
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What You Can Do to Prevent Falls Brochure
Use to help patients learn how to reduce their chances of falling.
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- What You Can Do to Prevent Falls [English version – 2MB]
- What You Can Do to Prevent Falls [English version with crop marks – 2MB]
Chair Rise Exercise
Simple exercises to help improve thigh and buttock strength and to reduce fall risk.
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Postural Hypotension Brochure
Use to teach patients how to manage their postural hypotension.
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- Postural Hypotension, What It Is and How to Manage It [English version – 2MB]
- Postural Hypotension, What It Is and How to Manage It [English version with crop marks – 2MB]
Stay Independent: Prevent Falls
Information for older adults about how to take action and prevent falls.
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Older Adult Falls: A Growing Danger
This fact sheet highlights information about how falls threaten older adults’ health, independence & quality of life.
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CDC Resources
- Taking Steps to Prevent Falls Podcasts: Listen (0:59) Listen (3:52)
- Keeping Seniors Safe Podcasts: Listen (0:59) Listen (3:50)
- Preventing Older Adult Falls and TBI Podcast: Listen (2:37)
- Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Motor Vehicle Safety: Older Adult Drivers
- Violence Prevention: Elder Abuse
Additional Resources from HHS
- Page last reviewed: September 19, 2017
- Page last updated: September 19, 2017
- Content source:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,
- Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention