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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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WOD

World Osteoporosis Day – driving action for prevention – October 20, 2020

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Launch of PCP Education Toolkit striving to reduce burden of secondary osteoporotic fractures

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Surgery

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