Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Get Ideas For Vision-Related Falls Reduction Here
Published on Wed Apr 27, 2011
Looking for ways to help reduce falls in your visually impaired patient population? You may want to check out an article in the new issue of the journal Insight: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness. Converting or adapting home environments to make everyday tasks easier is one important intervention, says the article by Brown University and UCLA researchers. The article is at www2.allenpress.com/pdf/aerj-04-02-83-91.pdf.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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