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Fall-prevention efforts offer simple steps for older adults
At 94, she has come to the fall-prevention clinic to relearn how to stay on her feet so she can still get out to the bank, the hairdresser and the corner restaurant to have lunch with her neighbor. Flodquist has fallen several times in the past decade, thanks to a small rock, a weedy parking strip and a tiny side yard, where she was washing windows with a hose while looking up and walking backward. Usually, she broke something — an ankle, elbow, wrist, leg. Then, in December, Flodquist was headed to the bus stop, carefully avoiding cracks in the street, when she failed to step high enough to clear a curb. She only bruised a thumb, but it scared her. "I have learned to look at the ground all the time," she said. Flodquist is among millions of people age 65 and older who fall every year in the U.S.
February 2008
And if he changes his mind about getting in the race, Schoen said, Sheekey will be ready. "(Sheekey) has done a very, very sophisticated analysis of the electorate," Schoen said. "I think Sheekey probably knows more about American voters - and particularly these restless and anxious moderates - than anyone operating. And I think he has a sense as to what the electorate is looking for; and armed with that information and how the race plays out in the next two or three weeks, on both the Democratic and Republican side, I think you will see if the mayor changes his mind." Knowledge of the so-called Sheekey "master plan" has been out there for some time - perhaps it started here? But Schoen has been doing a lot of chatting with the media these days to coincide with the release this week of his new book, "Delcaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System." .
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