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The NRCSA Listserv is a quarterly publication. IN THIS ISSUE 1. Director’s Message ------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the second edition of the NRCSA listserv announcement. Since our last issue we have added new resources, best practices, and calendar items to our database. As always, we strive to offer our users the most up to date information on injury prevention in older adults. In addition to the items highlighted in this issue we have many more to view on the www.safeaging.org website. I invite you to bookmark the site and visit us often. Also on the Safe Aging website, we make it easy for users to suggest resources that they may have helped develop or may have used with success. Please feel free to submit any resources, best practices, or calendar items you feel may be appropriate for the Safe Aging audience. We are continually working to improve the website and to provide innovative ways of presenting information. To that end, we are currently developing online training that will be available in the coming months. We will make a special announcement when it is available for viewing. If there is other information you would find useful, or you have questions about the NRCSA website, please do not hesitate to contact us by email at safeaging@sdsu.edu. Sincerely, Robert L. Seidman, PhD ------------------------------------------------------------ 2. WHO ARE WE? The mission of the National Resource Center for Safe Aging (NRCSA) is to gather and share the best information and resources on senior safety, including fall prevention, pedestrian and motor vehicle safety, and prevention of elder abuse. The primary focus of NRCSA is to create and sustain an online community of public health and senior care professionals whose work involves teaching and promoting safety and safe practices among the elderly. This will be accomplished by building the web site www.SafeAging.org into the premier online resource center utilized by professionals to identify, experience, comment on, and share resources and best practices, including: - Community-Based Education Programs The National Resource Center for Safe Aging is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention and Division of Violence Prevention. ------------------------------------------------------------ 3. WHAT’S NEW ON THE NRCSA WEBSITE? Resources SMARTRISK. SMARTRISK is a national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives. SMARTRISK offers a variety of fall prevention resources for the elderly population. These include fact sheets on falls and hip fractures, information on the cost of falls and potential risks, strategies and mobility aids to prevent falls, the Smart Moves toolkit and a quality assessment tool, which allows practitioners to determine the quality of printed materials developed for seniors. Learn more… Live Stronger, Longer: Injury Prevention. - American Public Health Association. National Public Health Week fact sheets,empowering Americans to live stronger, longer! In 2005, the focus of NPHW was healthy aging and the tagline was "Empowering Americans to Live Stronger, Longer". APHA and its partners highlighted the week through promoting the three P's in adding more healthy years to life: Prevent, Protect and Plan. Learn more… Decisions About Driving. - American Academy of Family Physicians. This tool kit was developed through a cooperative agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The colorful folder contains a self-assessment, resources for those that can no longer drive, health and safety tips and information for the family. Learn more… Preventing
Elder Abuse. - Mature Market Institute MetLife. Caregivers
face many challenges as they search for information and make
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To help meet their needs, MetLife offers Since You Care- a
series of guides which provide practical suggestions and useful
tools on a variety of specific care-related subjects. Learn
more… Aging Data CDC Injury Maps - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) contains data on traffic crashes in the United States (available by state) that occur on a public roadway and where a fatality is involved in the crash. Through this web interface FARS data is searchable and downloadable. Learn more... CDC WISQARS - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. Learn more... DataFerret: For TheDataWeb - U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DataFerrett is the browser for DataWeb, an organization of databases located across the web. DataFerrett supports metadata searches across surveys, on-the-fly variable recoding, complex tabulations, and graphics. This website also allows for extraction of data from the following files: Survey of Income and Program Participation, Current Population Survey, American Housing Survey, Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the 1990 PUMS. Learn more... Fatality Analysis Reporting System - U.S. Department of Transportation. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) contains data on traffic crashes in the United States (available by state) that occur on a public roadway and where a fatality is involved in the crash. Through this web interface FARS data is searchable and downloadable. Learn more... Best Practices Randomizied Trials of Intervention: The prevention of falls in the elderly trial (PROFET) was a randomized controlled trial focused on evaluating an accident and emergency department fall prevention intervention. From the Department of Health Care of the Elderly, Guy's King's, and St Thomas' School of Medicine, King's College Hospital, London, UK. Learn more... Tool Kits: A
Tool Kit to Prevent Senior Falls includes fact sheets,
graphs, and brochures about falls and fall prevention for
older adults. The Tool Kit to Prevent Senior Falls has current
technical information and materials about falls and fall-related
injuries that can be used on an individual basis or incorporated
into health promotion activities aimed at reducing falls among
older adults. Learn more... Upcoming Events in Injury Prevention for Older Adults 2006 Joint Conference of The National Council
on the Aging and The American Society on Aging 8th World Conference on Injury Prevention and
Safety Promotion Future of Aging Services Conference ------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Q & A Do you have a specific question you would like answered about injury prevention in older adults? If so, please email us at safeaging@sdsu.edu and we will try to answer your question in the next Listserv announcement. ------------------------------------------------------------ 2006 NRCSA. All rights reserved. |
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