The causes of falls are very different. Think of a crooked paving stone, but also due to deteriorated vision or hearing, medication use or declining muscle strength. What is clear is that a fall has a major impact! Do you know what your risk of falling is? Take the short test.<\/p>\n
Everyone wants to stay healthy for as long as possible, right? A fall could jeopardize this.<\/p>\n
Are you curious about your risk of falling? Then answer the following 3 questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n Have you fallen in the past 12 months? Yes \/ No If you answer yes to one or more questions, you have an increased risk of falling.<\/p>\n Do you have any questions about this or do you have aincreased risk of falls?<\/strong>Please contact Fit in Wassenaar via the yellow “contact” button (top right). Sandra Ruitenbeek has been working at Fit in Wassenaar since January as a local fall prevention coordinator and fall prevention specialist. She will then contact you for a suitable offer that is offered in Wassenaar. You can also contact Sandra directly via:<\/p>\n sruitenbeek@sadwassenaar.nl<\/p>\n 06 18209936<\/p>\n Fortunately, we can also do something ourselves to prevent the risk of a fall. This can be done by working on your condition and fitness and by making adjustments at home that prevent a fall. Below are some tips:<\/p>\n – Train your balance and muscle strength; get up from your chair several times Start healthy aging on time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The causes of falls are very different. Think of a crooked paving stone, but also due to deteriorated vision or hearing, medication use or declining muscle strength. What is clear is that a fall has a major impact! Do you know what your risk of falling is? Take the short test. Everyone wants to stay healthy for as long as possible, right? A fall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","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\/4324","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitinwassenaar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Are you worried about falling? Yes \/ No
Do you have difficulty moving, walking or keeping balance? Yes \/ No<\/p>\n
– Have your medications checked
– Eat tasty and healthy
– Check your eyes
– Wear well-fitting shoes
– Make the house safe; sufficient lighting and concealed cables<\/p>\n