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BC Senior Falls Prevention Awareness Week
Cranbrook Safe Communities and regional partners are pleased to host this area’s first B.C. Senior Falls Prevention Awareness Week initiative.
The number of deaths and hospitalizations from falls are significant. They are predictable, and they are preventable.
“The campaign was initially born around the Safe Communities leadership table. One of our mandates is Falls, and we realized with a quick survey around the table that even in our small group, we had lots of stories to tell, and ample testimony to the fact that falls really DO affect everyone,” says Laurie Harris, Safe Communties Cranbrook member and Coordinator of Cranbrook’s Better at Home program. “We decided to spread the news….to help us all understand where the risks are, what we can do to reduce them, and where to go for help and information.”
The Falls Prevention Awareness campaign features two components:
Two free workshops in five East Kootenay communities, presented by facilitators from the Council of Senior Citizen Organizations (COSCO).
An information station at Tamarack Centre in Cranbrook, where citizens can connect with experts, gather information, and participate in a community survey to help identify what may be specific trip/fall hazards on our local streets and sidewalks.
Workshops
Tuesday, Nov. 4 – Fernie, Rocky Mountain Village, 55 Cokato Rd
Call to register: EK Senior Caregiver’s Network, 1-877-489-0803.
Wednesday, Nov. 5 – Cranbrook, Joseph Creek Village, 1901 Willowbrook Drive. Call to register: Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre, 250-426-2912.
Thursday, Nov. 6 – Kimberley, Kimbrook Manor (aka Western Lodge), 2655 Warren Avenue. Call to register: EK Senior Caregiver’s Network, 1-877-489-0803.
Friday, Nov. 7 – Creston, Creston and District Community Complex, Erickson Room, 312 19th Ave N. Call to register: EK Senior Caregiver’s Network, 1-877-489-0803.
The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of British Columbia (COSCO) is the largest federation of seniors’ organizations in the Province of British Columbia, representing seniors for over 50 years.
COSCO was registered under the Societies Act in 1981 as an umbrella organization made up of 75+ seniors’ organizations as well as a significant number of individual associate members. The Council is volunteer run and operated by an elected board of directors.
COSCO’s Purpose (excerpt from the constitution): to assemble, co-ordinate and advance proposals and resolutions concerned with the welfare of elder citizens, and submit them to the appropriate government bodies; and To advance the social and physical welfare of all elder citizens in the province of British Columbia”
A member of the BC Centre for Policy Alternatives, the BC Health Coalition, The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners and Senior Citizens’ Federation.
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