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  1. Preventing Falls: The Four Fall Stoppers Learn what causes most falls and what you can do to stay safe.
  2. How to Get Up Safely After a Fall
  3. Getting Up Safely After a Fall Learn how to safely get up after a fall and what to do if you need to call for help.
  4. Preventing Falls in Older Adults Learn how to prevent falls by taking care of yourself, preparing your home, and following a few safety tips.
  5. Preventing Falls: Get an Eye Exam Learn how getting an eye exam may help you stay safe and independent.
  6. Preventing Falls: Leg Lifts Learn how to do a simple exercise to strengthen your core and prevent falls.
  7. Preventing Falls: Make Your Home Safe Learn how to fix some common tripping hazards around your home.
  8. Preventing Falls: Two Good Exercises Learn how to do two exercises to improve your strength and balance.
  9. Preventing Falls in the Hospital
  10. Preventing Falls in the Hospital Find out why you're at risk for falling in the hospital and how to prevent a fall.
  11. How to Help Your Child Prevent a Fall in the Hospital You're part of the team that keeps your child safe in the hospital. Here's how to prevent a fall.
  12. Preventing Falls: Exercises for Strength and Balance Provides a brief overview and step-by-step instructions for doing exercises to help prevent falls. Includes warm-up, strength-building, and balance-building exercises.
  13. Child Safety: Preventing Falls
  14. Preventing Falls in Older Adults Tips to help prevent falls and injuries for older adults and people who have had a stroke or have multiple sclerosis or osteoporosis. Covers taking care of your health and making changes in your home. Covers preventing falls in the bathroom and outdoors.
  15. Aging Well: Making Your Home Fall-Proof Covers making your home fall-proof to prevent injuries. Looks at common hazards like clutter and throw rugs. Discusses simple changes you can make in your home and the way you do some activities to reduce risk of falling.
  16. Preventing Falls: Medicine Safety Learn how some medicines can make you dizzy or drowsy and how you can stay safe.
  17. Preventing Falls: Use a Home Safety Checklist Learn to spot hazards in your home by using a home safety checklist.
  18. Preventing Falls in Older Adults Who Take High-Risk Medicines
  19. Checklist for Preventing Falls at Home
  20. Hair Loss
  21. Types of Hair Loss
  22. Causes of Hair Loss: Medicines and Medical Treatments
  23. Caregiving: Making a Home Safe
  24. Cancer: Preparing for Hair Loss From Chemotherapy Get tips to prepare for and manage hair loss from chemotherapy.
  25. Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment Explains hair loss from chemotherapy or radiation. Covers how long hair loss lasts and how to care for your scalp and hair. Explains how cooling caps may help prevent hair loss in some types of treatment.
  26. Quick Tips: Staying Active in Cold Weather Covers ways to be active in fall and winter weather. Offers tips for indoor activities like mall walking or joining a gym. Also covers outdoor exercise options like raking leaves and shoveling snow. Provides tips on how to be safe.
  27. Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)
  28. Insomnia Discusses problems falling asleep or staying asleep. Covers causes such as stress, depression, lack of exercise. Discusses other sleep disorders such as sleep apnea. Covers treatment and includes alternative medicines like melatonin.
  29. Vision Problems: Making Your Home Safer Learn how to use lighting and contrast to make your home safer.
  30. Low-Vision Accommodations in Your Home
  31. Fainting
  32. Osteoporosis Covers causes and symptoms of osteoporosis in women. Looks at treatment with medicine. Includes steps to slow bone loss with exercise, eating healthy foods, and quitting smoking. Covers protecting yourself from falling to prevent broken bones.
  33. Blackouts Caused by Alcohol or Drugs
  34. Interactive Tool: Are You Depressed? Helps you assess whether you have depression. Tool calculates how many common symptoms you have. Based on your answers, shows where you fall on a depression scale. Helps you find out if you might need treatment.
  35. Dizziness: Lightheadedness and Vertigo Briefly discusses symptoms of dizziness, lightheadedness, and vertigo. Covers possible causes, including illnesses, infections, health conditions, and medicines. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  36. Hair Transplant Surgery
  37. Checklist for the Home for Vertigo
  38. Physical Signs of Alcohol Use Disorder
  39. Sleep Problems, Age 12 and Older Briefly discusses various sleep problems of those 12 and older. Covers insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and restless leg syndrome. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  40. Blood Pressure Numbers: When to Get Help
  41. Heart Rhythm Problems: Symptoms
  42. Heart Failure: Less Common Symptoms

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