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Editorial
. 2024 Nov 26;9(1):e001487.
doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2024-001487. eCollection 2024.

Stop The Falls! A framework for injury prevention outreach for older adults presented by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Committees

Tanya Egodage  1 , Thomas K Duncan  2   3 , Vanessa P Ho  4   5 , D'Andrea Joseph  6 , Adin Tyler Putnam  7 , Sigrid Burruss  8 , Tasce Bongiovanni  9 , Jennifer Knight-Davis  10 , Sasha D Adams  11 , Elizabeth Gorman  12 , Molly P Jarman  13 , Nasim Ahmed  14 , Asanthi Ratnasekera  15 , Kartik Prabhakaran  16 , Caitlin Cohan  17 , Melissa Hornor  18 , Kristin P Colling  19 , Bellal Joseph  20
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Editorial

Stop The Falls! A framework for injury prevention outreach for older adults presented by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Committees

Tanya Egodage et al. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. .

Abstract

With the increasing age of the population in the USA, fall prevention events to target older patients are imperative. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma hosted a fall prevention event at the host city of the 2023 Annual Meeting. We review the planning and implementation of this "Stop the Falls" event, in hopes that other institutions may benefit and sustainably effectuate fall prevention events for an increasingly geriatric population.

Keywords: Accident Prevention; Multiple Trauma; epidemiology; geriatrics.

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Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Key tenets of fall prevention.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Handbook and giveaways.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Members of the AAST Geriatric and Injury Prevention Committees hosting the event.
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