Falls cost Americans more than thirty billion dollars a year and are the leading cause of unintentional hospitalization and death among older Mainers.
Guests: Dr. Robert Anderson works at Maine Medical Center as both an emergency physician and an internist with a focus on the care of older adults. Through the hospital's Outpatient Geriatric Center, he started a house call program which specifically targets older adults treated in the ER for a fall.
Patricia League, RN, Maine Health program director of A Matter of Balance
