Center for Healthy Aging

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• Behavioral Health

Resources

For Professionals

• Federal Budget Debates Leave Falls Prevention Funding Hanging
• Congress Fails to Stop Sequester
• Top 12 Reads from 2012
• U.S. Senate Adopts National Falls Day Resolution
• 6 Steps to Protect Your Older Loved One from a Fall
• Standing Together to Prevent Falls - Past Event
• Prescription for Life: Building Community Partnerships to Promote Physical Activity and Social Engagement for Older Adults - Past Event

For Older Adults and Caregivers

• Top 12 Reads from 2012
• 6 Steps to Protect Your Older Loved One from a Fall

For Advocates

• Federal Budget Debates Leave Falls Prevention Funding Hanging
• Congress Fails to Stop Sequester

South Carolina

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South Carolina Fall Prevention Initiatives

South Carolina is currently developing its falls prevention coalition.  For more information and to get involved in in South Carolina, please contact:

Nichole Kent Spivey, MBA
Manager
Public Health Injury Surveillance Prevention Program
Division of Injury & Violence Prevention
1800 St. Julian Place
Columbia, SC 29204

Phone: (803) 545-4507
Fax: (803) 545-4503
Email: spiveynk@dhec.sc.gov

Website: http://www.scdhec.gov/health/chcdp/injury/

South Carolina Injury Prevention Plan 2010-2015: http://www.scdhec.gov/administration/library/CR-009900.pdf

want to live in a country where

older adults don't have to choose between paying for medicine or food.