Once a person falls, things usually go downhill; it’s one of the leading causes of people going to the emergency department,” ...

"Twenty-five percent of all the emergencies we respond to are falls involving older adults," Derby Fire Marshal Jonathan Marr ...

Carla, 84, suffered from chronic back pain while living independently. She was prescribed increasingly strong pain medications, from muscle relaxants to topical anesthetics and eventually narcotics.

Today’s anti-fall technology has come a long way from the emergency alert systems of the late 1980s, when Mrs. Fletcher ...

LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. (WFMZ) -- As we near the end of Fall Prevention Month, Occupational Therapy Students from Cedar Crest College held a workshop at Lehigh County Senior Centers on Friday on how to ...