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Purpose
The 2025 National Falls Prevention Action Plan provides a framework for reducing and preventing the number of falls experienced by older Americans. The plan envisions a future where many more of us are "falls free" and able to live our lives to their full potential.
The Action Plan lays out six key goals aimed at reducing and preventing falls in older Americans, building on previous plans published in 2005 and 2015, outlining what each sector or organization can do to help accomplish these goals. Further, the plan aims to make progress towards falls prevention benchmarks set as part of Healthy People 2030, a federal government effort to improve health and well-being, including:
- Reducing the number of fall-related deaths to 63 from 77 for everyone 100,000 people older than 65
- Reducing the number of emergency department visits due to falls by older adults to 5,447 from 6,052 for every 100,000 people
The Action Plan seeks to help all Americans live longer, healthier lives.
Goals, priorities, and action steps
The Action Plan is centered around six broad goals, focusing on expanding public awareness, broadening funding, increasing evidence-based interventions, driving more partnerships, generating new technologies, and improving data about falls. Each section includes comprehensive barriers, opportunities, priorities, and action steps for each of the six goals.
Development and audience
This plan was developed through an intensely collaborative process, led by NCOA's National Falls Prevention Resource Center and a steering committe of 13 falls prevention leaders, with suppotr from the federal Administration for Community Living. The Action Plan was built with input from 327 professionals and providers who were surveyed on the state of falls over the past five years, and participants from a multitude of different sectors at the third National Falls Prevention Summit in September 2024.
As the plan describes, all of us have an important role to play in preventing falls. NCOA looks forward to working with a broad range of partners in government, health and social services, industry, and others to move this ambitious plan into action.
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See if you're at risk for falling.
Falls threaten the safety and independence for older Americans and can create a heavy economic and personal burden. Check to see if you’re at risk of falling with NCOA’s Falls Free CheckUp tool.
