{"id":4236,"date":"2025-06-24T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/2026\/02\/19\/residents-behalen-certificaat-voor-afronden-erkende-fall-prevention-interventie\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:44:48","slug":"residents-behalen-certificaat-voor-afronden-erkende-fall-prevention-interventie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/24\/residents-behalen-certificaat-voor-afronden-erkende-fall-prevention-interventie\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents earn certificate for completing certified fall prevention intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">A new group of participants aged 65 and older have successfully completed the Vallen Verleden Tijd course. With renewed muscle strength and an improved sense of balance, these participants are more confident in life. The fear of falling has been replaced by more confidence with every step they take. This new security gives them the freedom to fully enjoy everyday life. We celebrate their success and the positive impact on their mobility and well-being!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>A fall has an impact\u00a0on your life and on your life expectancy<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Every 4 minutes a person over 65 ends up in the Emergency Department after a fall. More than 35,000 people in 2023. Almost half of the people subsequently ended up in a nursing home temporarily or permanently. A fall therefore affects your life and your life expectancy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Falling is the largest non-natural cause of death in the Netherlands. In 2023, 6,732 Dutch people died as a result of a fall. That is why Fit in Wassenaar focuses on fall prevention with recognized courses that are also offered free of charge to our residents. Are you 65 years and older and would you like more knowledge and skills to prevent falls (in the future)? Please contact:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Contact details Fall Prevention Coordinator:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Soraya Sip<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">06-24 60 84 45<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Do you want to test your fall risk first? Then go to: https:\/\/www.hoesterkstaik.nl\/ or read<strong><a href=\"\/en\/programme\/fall-prevention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> <\/strong>more about fall prevention.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new group of participants aged 65 and older have successfully completed the Vallen Verleden Tijd course. With renewed muscle strength and an improved sense of balance, these participants are more confident in life. The fear of falling has been replaced by more confidence with every step they take. This new certainty gives them the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ongecategoriseerd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}