Senior Safety Neighborhood Awareness Project (SSNAP)
Why a Safety Awareness Program for Seniors?
Unintentional falls are a threat to the lives, independence and health of adults ages 65 and older. Every 18 seconds, an older adult is treated in an emergency department for a fall, and every 35 minutes someone in this population dies as a result of their injuries.
In 2000, the total direct cost of all fall injuries for people 65 and older exceeded $19 billion.1 The financial toll for older adult falls is expected to increase as the population ages, and may reach $54.9 billion by 2020 (adjusted to 2007 dollars). Increased risk of fires are another problem for people as they age... (source: CDC)
Senior Safety Online is committed to building resources that will help communities:
1. Help seniors avoid the hazards of fall and fires and keep seniors living at home
2. Provide resources to community organizations to help them make seniors aware of the hazards of fires, falls and the importance of medication management
3. Cut the use of community resources as a result of trauma due to falls and fires.
The Role of SSNAP
Provide seniors, caregivers and protectors with cost effective tools that allow seniors keep safe in their homes. The goal is to build a senior community sensitive to safety issues that they can easily control.
The secret to keeping seniors safe at home is ongoing seminars on different safety subjects. The SSNAP project is based on community seminars using the internet tools
Announcing the Broward County Senior Safety Neighborhood Awareness Project
From a community grant and a donation from one of our friends, American Medical Alert Corp (AMAC), Senior Safety Online has just established a SSNAP in Broward County Florida. In addition to our web site's community based safety awareness tools, we are providing seminars as teaching guides for interested parties such police, fire and rescue, caregivers, service coordinators, senior center employees, etc. To visit Broward's web site just click on Broward County.
If any neighborhood organization is interest in working with Senior Safety, you can contact us by clicking here
