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WIHA launches Falls Free Wisconsin! Learn more about the new site!

Now Recruiting facilitators for Fall Training! Program providers, facilitators, and participants spoke and we listened!The Stand Up and Move More program is a unique program designed to encourage people to reduce their sitting time to achieve incredible health benefits. Throughout…

Wisconsin’s Healthy Aging Grants: State Support for Older Adult Wellness and Independence The proposed 2023-2025 budget includes $600,000 per year over the biennium for Healthy Aging Grants – funds to support evidence-based health promotion programs in communities throughout the state. These critically-needed…

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As part of our Falls Free Wisconsin initiative, the Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging (WIHA) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for local falls prevention efforts in Wisconsin. The Localizing Efforts to Address Falls (LEAF) program will provide grants…

Thanks to all who were able to join us today for the the Falls Free Wisconsin Coalition’s Innovative Approaches to Falls Prevention in Wisconsin Communities webinar. We hope you found ideas that you can adapt and/or replicate in your area.…

September is Falls Prevention Awareness Month, but the prevalence and high cost of falls in Wisconsin is a year-round problem. In fact, for adults age 65 and older, Wisconsin’s death rate due to falls is the nation’s highest. One in…