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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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Improving time to surgery for hip fracture patients

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New IOF-APOA initiative urging orthopaedic surgeons to play a greater role in secondary fracture prevention

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Long-term treatment of post-menopausal osteoporosis

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Practical aspects of establishing hip fracture registries – consolidating and broadening stakeholder buy-in

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World-first Hip Fracture Registry Toolbox striving to improve care for the 1 million+ who fracture a hip in Asia Pacific each year

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