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Preventing Falls by Adapting Your Home
As we age, a great many things we once took for granted can become hazardous.   This is certainly true when it comes to navigating one's home.   A simple fall in the bathroom, on the stairs, or almost anywhere could be life threatening to anyone of advanced age.   Vision loss increases the risk of falling, as well as one's vulnerability to injury.

See Well for a Lifetime: An Educational Series on Vision and Aging

National Eye Health Education Program of the National Eye Institute Launches a New Program—The National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP) of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health is pleased to announce its new program focused on vision and aging.
  As people age, they are at higher risk for eye diseases and conditions including age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, cataract and dry eye.   This new program emphasizes the importance of comprehensive dilated eye examinations for everyone aged 50 and older, and stresses that eye diseases often have no early warning signs or symptoms and how early detection and treatment may prevent or delay vision loss and blindness.   The NEHEP Vision and Aging Program provides health professionals who work with older adults with evidence-based, easy-to-understand tools and resources that can be used in community settings to educate adults about eye health and maintaining healthy vision as they age.   See Well for a Lifetime: An Educational Series on Vision and Aging is the core educational tool of this new program.   The See Well for a Lifetime Toolkit is an online resource that contains three modules that can be used individually or as a series to promote the need for regular dilated eye exams for people over age 50.   Each module, Making Vision a Health Priority, Age-related Eye Diseases and Conditions, and Low Vision, contains a PowerPoint presentation, a speaker's guide with detailed talking points to give a presentation, participant handouts, promotional announcements and participant evaluation forms.   To learn more about the new Vision and Aging Program and to download the See Well for a Lifetime modules, visit www.nei.nih.gov/SeeWellToolkit

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