{"id":8890,"date":"2023-09-15T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:16:36","slug":"from-awareness-to-action-16th-annual-falls-prevention-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/from-awareness-to-action-16th-annual-falls-prevention-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018From Awareness to Action\u2019: 16th Annual Falls Prevention Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/page\/falls-prevention-awareness-week-toolkit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2023\/09\/2023-NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Week-screenshot-300x169.png\" alt=\"falls prevention awareness week toolkit\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2023\/09\/2023-NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Week-screenshot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2023\/09\/2023-NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Week-screenshot-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2023\/09\/2023-NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Week-screenshot-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2023\/09\/2023-NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Week-screenshot-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2023\/09\/2023-NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Week-screenshot.png 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>The week of September 18-22, 2023 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/page\/falls-prevention-awareness-week-toolkit\">Falls Prevention Awareness Week<\/a>. This year&#8217;s theme is \u2018From Awareness to Action\u2019. During this week, the spotlight is on empowering individuals, caregivers, and healthcare providers to help prevent falls in older adults. This is the sixteenth year that the NCOA (National Council on Aging), the Falls Free Initiative, and partners have educated older adults about falls prevention during Falls Prevention Week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/2023-falls-prevention-awareness-week\/\">Learn more about this years tools, resources and webinars.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\" rule-thin osc-rule\" \/>\n<p>Watch the NCOA video, <strong><em>NCOA Falls Prevention: 6 Steps to Prevent a Fall.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NCOA Falls Prevention: 6 Steps to Prevent a Fall\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97MrLqw1aro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of September 18-22, 2023 is Falls Prevention Awareness Week. This year&#8217;s theme is \u2018From Awareness to Action\u2019. During this week, the spotlight is on empowering individuals, caregivers, and healthcare providers to help prevent falls in older adults. This is the sixteenth year that the NCOA (National Council on Aging), the Falls Free Initiative, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/from-awareness-to-action-16th-annual-falls-prevention-awareness-week\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018From Awareness to Action\u2019: 16th Annual Falls Prevention Awareness Week\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106633,"featured_media":8894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>16th Annual Falls Prevention Awareness Week<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 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