The Slip and Fall Prevention Handbook: You Make The Difference

Slip and Fall accidents are the second highest cause of accidental death among the elderly. “The Slip & Fall Prevention Handbook: You Make the Difference”, explains how, with proper preparation and awareness, many of these events can be prevented.

This informative handbook, directly from an orthopedic surgeon with over 30 years of experience explains everything you need to know about preventing Slip and Fall accidents with the most important preventative factor being YOU.

Inside you'll find:

The Cause of Falls

The Importance of Staying in the Moment

How to Create and Maintain a Safe Environment

Hazards to Avoid

Strategies to Increase Your Safety Odds

What to do if you Slip and Fall

Exercise programs, Diet, Doctors and more….

This well-illustrated and thoughtful handbook covers stats, standards and best practices for YOUR safety against Slip and Fall. It includes journals checklists, and 30 years of experience from the Doctor herself.

M.E. Hecht, M.D., is an Orthopedic Surgeon; she writes both fiction and nonfiction. She first entered the business and book world to inform and explain to patients much often unexplained about surgical and medical care, and continues to fulfill this mission today with published books, and articles written for Vogue Magazine, Sunrise River Press, The Wall Street Journal, American Medical News, Medical Tribune, Nations Business and others.

After her medical studies, Dr. Hecht became the Assistant Chief of Orthopedics at Elmhurst Hospital, an affiliate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine; she then established the country's first group of surgeons devoted solely to rendering second opinions for elective surgery, "The Hecht Group Second Surgical Opinion Institution."