{"id":3172,"date":"2024-02-14T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:20:53","slug":"seniors-fall-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/en\/seniors-fall-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors Fall Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors from <a href=\"https:\/\/residencerobertdobie.ca\/\">Robert Dobie Residence<\/a> were the latest to be visited by a member of the Montreal General Hospital\u2019s Trauma Team.\u00a0 Injury Prevention Coordinator, Tara Grenier, hopes to reduce the number of falls in the senior population by visiting one residence at a time.\u00a0 \u201cThe numbers of trauma patients here as a result of a fall continues to increase yearly, and unfortunately the trends will continue to rise due to the aging population.\u00a0 When I started here 14 years ago, we would admit around 800 patients for a fall per year and now we are up to 1000.\u00a0 The injuries can be devastating.\u00a0 Many of these injuries are preventable, so we all need to do our share to make a difference.\u201d Says Ms. Grenier.<\/p>\n<p>The residents listened attentively to the risk factors, learned how they could decrease their risk of falling, did some exercises, found out how to make their environment a safer place to live.<\/p>\n<p>To book a visit or to learn more, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\">www.codetrauma.com<\/a> or write <a href=\"mailto:codetrauma@muhc.m#cgill.ca\">codetrauma@muhc.mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014103-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014103-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014103-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014103-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014103-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014103-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014104-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014104-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014104-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014104-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014104-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1000014104-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3169\" src=\"https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2024\/02\/1000014105-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2024\/02\/1000014105-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2024\/02\/1000014105-2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2024\/02\/1000014105-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2024\/02\/1000014105-2-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2024\/02\/1000014105-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors from Robert Dobie Residence were the latest to be visited by a member of the Montreal General Hospital\u2019s Trauma Team.\u00a0 Injury Prevention Coordinator, Tara Grenier, hopes to reduce the number of falls in the senior population by visiting one residence at a time.\u00a0 \u201cThe numbers of trauma patients here as a result of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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