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Follow on Google News | Long Term Care Insurance Executive Urges Boomers To Help Aging Parents Avoid FallsOne third of Americans over age 65 fall each year resulting in two million emergency room visits and countless long term care insurance claims. The director of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance urges fall prevention.
“Falls also account for many of the 200,000 claims currently being paid by the nation’s long term care insurers http://www.aaltci.org,” Indeed two new studies report that the number of falls can be reduced by roughly 30 percent and the number of people falling by about 20 percent. Researchers reported that exercise that contains multiple components such as strength and balance training can be helpful. An additional study recently published by researchers at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand projected that with the right interventions; The researchers found that some interventions to treat vision problems, such as adjusting to new glasses, also increased the risk of falls. They also shared that exercise, including Tai Chi, effectively cut the risk of falling. Slome, one of the nation’s leading long term care insurance experts, noted that home safety assessment and modification was essential. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 38,000 Americans 65 and older are treated in ERs each year after tripping on a rug or a carpet. More than a third of the falls happen in the bathroom. “If you have aging parents, help make their home fall safe by removing newspapers and books from the floor and stairs,” Slome advises. “Get rid of small rugs or tape them to the floor and have grab bars in the bathroom plus non-slip mats in the bathtub.” “We get many calls from adults with aging parents hoping they can buy long term care insurance but this must be done while you can still health qualify,” Slome explains. “It’ The American Association for Long Term Care Insurance http://www.aaltci.org/ End
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