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Preventing Falls

Preventing Falls

The Risk of Falling.   Falls can be prevented. These are some simple things you can do to keep yourself from falling. Talk to Your Doctor Ask your doctor or healthcare provider to evaluate your risk for falling and talk with them about specific things you can do. Ask your doctor or pharmacist to review your medicines to see if any Rx or OTC meds might make you dizzy or sleepy. This should include prescription medicines and over-the counter medicines. Concurrent infections such as…

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8. Definitions that you Must Know

8. Definitions that you Must Know

Advance Care Directive – a written statement of a person’s wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor. Living Will – A written document that allows a patient to give explicit instructions about medical treatment to be administered when the patient is terminally ill or permanently unconscious; also called an advance directive. Health Care Power of Attorney – Legal authorization…

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