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Stay safe from falls

Advice to stay safe from falls. How to check your risk of falling, make your home safer, talk to your doctor about a fall, and how to get up after a fall.

Advice to stay safe from falls. How to check your risk of falling, make your home safer, talk to your doctor about a fall, and how to get up after a fall.

    • Check your falls risk
    • Stay safe in your home
    • Talk to your doctor about preventing a fall
    • What to do if you've had a fall

Rapua tētahi rōpū korikori

Find a class

Find a class near you - to help you improve your strength and balance, prevent falls, and keep fit and healthy. Follow these steps.

Find a class near you - to help you improve your strength and balance, prevent falls, and keep fit and healthy. Follow these steps.

    • Find a class
    • Online classes
    • Referring patients to strength and balance classes

Tiakina tō hauora

Looking after your health

We all need to maintain strength and balance as we age. Find out ways you can help yourself to stay healthy, prevent falls, and keep living the life you want.

We all need to maintain strength and balance as we age. Find out ways you can help yourself to stay healthy, prevent falls, and keep living the life you want.

    • Staying active
    • Bone health
    • Nutrition
    • Concussion
    • What can cause a fall

He kōrero mā ngā whānau me ngā kaitiaki

Advice for families and carers

We all need a little extra help to stay healthy as we age. Discover different ways to look after someone you care for by helping them keep fit, maintain their strength and balance, and reduce their risk of falls around the home.

We all need a little extra help to stay healthy as we age. Discover different ways to look after someone you care for by helping them keep fit, maintain their strength and balance, and reduce their risk of falls around the home.

    • Falls prevention support
    • Helping with recovery

Te taupānga o Nymbl

Nymbl app

Find out more about the Nymbl app – ACC’s handy tool to help older adults maintain their balance as they age.

Find out more about the Nymbl app – ACC’s handy tool to help older adults maintain their balance as they age.

    • Download the Nymbl App
    • Nymbl App FAQs
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