Falls – Covered Caregiver https://beta.coveredcaregiver.com Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:38:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://beta.coveredcaregiver.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/caregiver-100x100.jpg Falls – Covered Caregiver https://beta.coveredcaregiver.com 32 32 Have You Fallen In The Last Month? https://beta.coveredcaregiver.com/falls/have-you-fallen-in-the-last-month-2/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:02:34 +0000 http://www.coveredcaregiver.com/?p=268 The post Have You Fallen In The Last Month? appeared first on Covered Caregiver.

]]> Your Risk of Falling Can Be Reduced https://beta.coveredcaregiver.com/falls/your-risk-of-falling-can-be-reduced/ Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:25:56 +0000 http://www.coveredcaregiver.com/?p=275 A person’s health and well-being, as well as their independence, can be significantly threatened by a fall, particularly in the elderly.  The following is a list of tips and suggestions for you or someone you may know to share with, to help minimize their risk of serious injury from a fall. General Safety: •  Before

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]]> Have You Fallen In The Last Month? https://beta.coveredcaregiver.com/falls/have-you-fallen-in-the-last-month/ Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:57:30 +0000 http://www.coveredcaregiver.com/?p=269 A new study entitled “More Than Half a Million Older Californians Fell Repeatedly in the Past Year” by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that in 2012, Californians over the age of 65 visited the Emergency Department (ED) over 185,000 times for falls. More than 72,000 of those visits led to hospitalizations and,

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