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Step safely: strategies for preventing and managing falls across the life-course.

For healthcare professionals working with vulnerable older adults at increased fracture risk due to osteoporosis, falls prevention assessment and decreasing falls risk is of paramount importance.

The Step Safely technical package provides concrete recommendations for evidence-based strategies to prevent and manage falls for children and adolescents, workers, and older people. Importantly, it includes recommendations for older people in three settings (home, residential care facilities, hospitals).

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Call to embed roadmaps for acute and long-term fragility fracture care in the Asia Pacific

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New Zealand’s report card on fragility fractures: a review of BoneCare 2020

Co-author, Professor Takeshi Sawaguchi, Toyama Municipal Hospital, Japan (6)

Appeal for orthopaedic surgeons to more proactively lead and champion bone health

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New Zealand raises the bar on growth & refinement of FLS

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Study analyses backbone of novel care for fragility fractures in New South Wales, Australia

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