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What is Well-Living?

BaptistCare’s Well-Living approach focuses on the key components to assist you to maximise your health, wellness and independence. Well-Living is about providing the practical knowledge, assistance and support to enable you to keep living your best possible life at home.

Understanding the risk of falls

Falls in older adults are serious. Broken bones can be slow to heal and can take a long period of recovery. Falls can also have a lasting impact on your confidence due to an ongoing fear of falling. The old saying ‘use it or lose it’ is especially true in helping to prevent falls. So we want to do everything we can to help you stay fit, healthy and safe from falls.

The best way to prevent falls is by staying active, looking after yourself and improving safety around the home. Reducing your risk of falling and injury will allow you to continue to participate in activities that you value and enjoy, enabling you to live the life you choose. Evidence suggests that there are several factors that increase the risk of falls for older adults. The environment, footwear, poor muscle strength and balance, medications and poor vision can all contribute to a fall.

This booklet provides important information about effective falls prevention strategies. We hope that this will contribute to helping you live safely and well at home.