-Resources

• Download A Gift of Home Safety brochure for practical gift ideas for older family members and friends.
  

• Check for Safety: A Home Falls Prevention Checklist for Older Adults, developed by the CDC, helps identify and fix hazards in each room of an older adult's home. home safety checklist.

• Download Home Safety and Personal Risk Assessment brochure.

• The Sure Steps Coalition has partnered with the Iowa Geriatric Education Center to provide assessment tools and research for health care professionals and in-home service providers. 

• This Exercise & Physical Activity website offers free, evidence-based resources for older adults: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/exercise-physical-activity
  

• Download You're Never too Old to Play!, an active lifestyle resource guide for Johnson County seniors, to view fitness and recreational opportunities.  

• Medication & Falls Risk Chart provides examples of medications, how they might increase the risk of falls and what to report to a health care provider. Prepared by Jeffrey Reist, Pharm.D., BCPS, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.

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