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New resources for preventing falls
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Info Day on "European eGovernment Awards 2009
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New resources for preventing falls
New resources for preventing falls among elderly people in the EU now available. The first document, `Feasibility of large scale interventions for preventing falls among older people in the European Union´, is a technical report providing key information on the methods and results of four studies conducted during APOLLO's Work Package 4 project. In addition this report also includes a case study of two implementations of the same intervention in two EU countries. The second document, published in November 2008, presents the results of the four studies in the form of `A guide for implementers of interventions to prevent falls in community dwelling older people´. Finally, a third document, `Prevention of falls in older people: Time to act´, provides recommendations for promoting the prevention of falls in community-dwelling older people. It covers areas such as what works in preventing falls, facilitating and monitoring the success of the proposed intervention fall prevention and the promotion of health and mental well being in older people. These documents have been produced by APOLLO Work Package 4, 'Development and assessment of strategic materials for implementation of recommendations for preventing falls among elderly people in the EU´. The main aim of this project was to fill gaps in knowledge on specific aspects that hinder the implementation of large scale interventions for the prevention of falls in older people. These documents provide information which can be used by public health researches, implementers of interventions for the prevention of falls and parties involved in the design of national or local action plans in the EU in the evaluation of the feasibility of large scale interventions in the EU. All three documents are available at ...more
Info Day on "European eGovernment Awards 2009
Registration open (21 April 2009)The European Commission and the Awards consortium organise an information workshop to present the "4th European eGovernment Awards 2009" and answer questions on the submission process with the participants. The Awards ceremony will take place during the Ministerial eGovernment Conference organised under the Swedish presidency in Malmoe (19-20 November). European eGovernment Awards 2009: ...more