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Preventing falls

Falls Prevention Quiz

Falls in older adults can have a devastating effect, robbing an active and vital individual of confidence, mobility, independence, and even life. Preventing falls can help seniors and veterans maintain their life styles, allowing them to live in their homes and neighbourhoods longer. Most people do not realize how easy it is to fall and with just a few modifications to one’s home and perhaps an assistive device (or two!) falls can be prevented.

Try this simple quiz developed by occupational therapists involved in falls prevention programs. You will be surprised at the results!

For more information on ways to prevent falls visit the Tools for Living Well area on this web site.

1. During a year, one (1) in ten (10) people over the age of 65 will report a fall.

2. Once you have reached a certain age, you will have to give up the energetic activities that you enjoy and be satisfied with staying home and doing quieter things.

3. Travelling is a bad idea; there are too many hazards that you cannot prevent.

4. It is important to have a non-slip bath mat on the floor outside the bathtub as well as the non-slip mat inside the bathtub.

5. Once you place the non-slip mat with suction cups on the bottom of the bathtub, you should leave it there. Removing it will wear out the suction cups.

6. You can wash your non-slip bathtub mat in the washing machine.

7. When choosing a cane, stand with the cane upright at your side. The handle of the cane should come to your wrist leve

8. If you have one leg that is weaker than the other, you should use the cane with the weak leg, holding it on the weak leg side.

9. When the rubber tip wears out on your cane, you can wrap it in duct tape until you can get to the store to replace it.

10. Grab bars around the bathtub are really only needed by people who have physical disabilities.

11. When installing a grab bar on a bathtub wall, it is important that you attach the grab bars to the studs in the wall.

12. Shower stalls don’t need grab bars because you don’t have to sit down in them.

13. A portable grab bar attached to the side of the tub is a good substitute for wall mounted grab bars.

14. Hip protectors are large and bulky, and everyone who sees you will know you are wearing them.

15. Assistive devices are expensive. Most people cannot afford them.