Fall Resources for All Care Settings

Falls and Fall Risk: American Medical Directors Association website provides relevant articles, tools and resources related to falls.

Falls Free: Promoting a National Falls Prevention Action Plan (NCOA): This monograph addresses the challenges and barriers related to a national falls prevention initiative and outlines key strategies and action steps to help reduce fall dangers for older adults.

STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries) Tool Kit for Health Care Providers:  Developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention's Injury Center, this toolkit was designed for health care provider seeing older adults in a variety of care settings.  The Tool kit is organized into the following sections: basic information on falls including case studies and conversation starters, standardized balance and gait assessments and educational handouts about falls prevention for older adults, their family and friends.