• National Council on Aging: Falls Prevention Awareness Week for Professionals
  Get ideas to raise awareness in your community around falls health and injury prevention. 
• CDC: Stop Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries Initiative (STEADI) for Health-Care Providers
  Learn more about the STEADI Initiative and browse resources to facilitate falls prevention in your patient population.
  • Stand STEADI: Encouraging Fall Prevention Across the Health-Care Team
  • Stand STEADI: Motivational Interviewing with Older Adult Patients
• New York State Podiatric Medical Association (NYSPMA) Public and Population Health Initiative
  As part of its Public and Population Health Initiative, NYSPMA has developed a falls prevention program to help reduce falls in the state of New York.
• National Institute on Aging:
  • Falls Free: 2015 National Falls Prevention Action Plan
  • Fall-Proofing Your Home
  • Prevent Falls and Fractures
  • State Fall Prevention Coalitions Contact
• American Physical Therapy Association Geriatrics: Falls Prevention Awareness Week Toolkit
• American Bone Health: You and Osteoporosis - An Animated Patient's Guide to Bone Health and Osteoporosis
  A new multimedia resource for people with osteoporosis and their families as well as health care providers and educators.

• National Council on Aging: Falls Prevention for Older Adults
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Recommendation Statement: Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
• CDC: Falls-at-a-Glance Flyer
• CDC: About Older Adult Fall Prevention
• CDC: Facts about Falls

• JAMA: "Prevention of Falls in Older Adults" (June 2024)
• Disability Rehabilitation: "Falls prevention and osteoarthritis: time for awareness and action" (February 2023)
• Front Public Health: "The impact of Otago exercise programme on the prevention of falls in older adult: A systematic review" (October 2022)
• Washington Post: "The past two decades have seen dramatic rise in elderly taking drugs that can lead to falls" (June 2021)
• Annals of Emergency Medicine: "Identifying Injury Patterns Associated With Physical Elder Abuse: Analysis of Legally Adjudicated Cases" (September 2020)
• Journal of Community Health: "Falls Experiences and Prevention Preferences of Adults in Mid-life" (December 2019)
• Wounds: "Preventing Fall Injury" (October 2019)
• Clinics in Geriatric Medicine: "Balance Problems and Fall Risks in the Elderly" (May 2019)
• New England Journal of Medicine: "Prevention of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults" (February 2020)
• CDC: "Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Selected Nonfatal Injuries Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years - United States (2018)
  In 2018, an estimated 2.4 million emergency department visits and >700,000 hospitalizations occurred among older adults as a result of injuries from falls, motor vehicle crashes, opioid overdoses, and self-harm. Unintentional falls accounted for >90 percent of these visits.
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitations Clinics in North America: "Balance Problems and Fall Risks in the Elderly" (November 2017)
• JAPMA: Special Falls Prevention Issue (November/December 2013)
• JAMA: "The patient who falls: 'It's always a trade-off'" (January 2010)

• National Council on Aging: The Importance of Screening for Brain Injury in Older Adults: Case Studies for Success
  Older adults have the highest rates of traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related hospitalizations, with a leading cause being from falls. Recognizing this connection, the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization of 2020 allows states to use OAA funding for TBI screenings. This webinar provides an overview of the magnitude of the connection between older adult falls and brain injury and provides stories from two states that have trained aging professionals on screening protocols.
• At-Risk Adult Abuse: Hiding in Plain Sight (April 2021)
  Falls content is presented starting at about 50 minutes. However, a word of caution: The webinar contains some very graphic images of elder abuse.

The 2024 MIPS Performance Year has falls-related clinical quality measures: 

• Medicare Part B Claims #155: Falls: Plan of Care 
• MIPS CQM #155: Falls: Plan of Care* 
• eCQM #318: Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk* 

*Check with your electronic health record (EHR) vendor that your EHR is certified to support this eCQM. 

Note: Details on how to perform many of the risk assessment components within the above quality measures can be found under "Functional Assessments" on the CDC’s STEADI webpage.