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"Millions of the nation's elderly, and their families, suffer the terribleconsequences of falls each year," said Rodgers, "and while more than $19billion is spent annually after-the-fact, the impact on these frail seniorscannot be measured in dollars alone. As a nation, we must do more to preventthese falls from occurring and reverse this serious healthcare crisis."
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Samarion joins more than 30 national policy organizations calling onCongress to fully fund the Safety for Seniors Act of 2008, signed into law byPresident George W. Bush in late April. Now titled Public Law 110-202, the actwill develop education strategies to raise awareness about elder falls,encourage research to identify at-risk populations and evaluate fallsinterventions, and very importantly, support fall prevention demonstrationprojects.
"Right now, new technologies are demonstrating their effectiveness atactually preventing falls from occurring in the first place," continuedRodgers. "Funding the CDC's Injury Center will provide the means to roll outimportant pilot programs to validate these promising fall preventiontechnologies."
Samarion is the developer of SamarionSolution(SM), the nursing home andassisted living industry's Enterprise Quality Improvement System, includingrestraint-free fall prevention, wandering and elopement prevention, abuse andneglect prevention, and family and community communications providingdramatically improved quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers.
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