{"id":2008,"date":"2021-09-23T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:50:07","slug":"falls-prevention-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/2021\/09\/23\/falls-prevention-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls Prevention Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/09\/NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Pic-636x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"292\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2010 alignnone\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/09\/NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Pic-636x292.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/09\/NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Pic-1024x471.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/09\/NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Pic-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/09\/NCOA-Falls-Prevention-Pic.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week (September 20<sup>th<\/sup>-24<sup>th<\/sup>) is Falls Prevention Awareness Week, and it is dedicated to increasing awareness about the risks and effects of falls. There are many ways to get involved this week, from learning about these risks to spreading the message to others. You can also advocate by contacting your local representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/older-adults\/health\/prevention\/falls-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to learn more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: https:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/ This week (September 20th-24th) is Falls Prevention Awareness Week, and it is dedicated to increasing awareness about the risks and effects of falls. There are many ways to get involved this week, from learning about these risks to spreading the message to others. You can also advocate by contacting your local representatives. Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10303,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}