The Dignity at Home Fall Prevention Program provides grants to Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) to provide fall and injury prevention information, education, referral services, equipment, assessments, services, materials and labor costs to the eligible service population.
The eligible service population includes individuals who are sixty (60) years of age or persons with disabilities, whose adjusted household income does not exceed 80 percent of the area median income and who are at risk of falling or institutionalization.
Program services include:
- Information and education about injury prevention to older adults and persons with disabilities.
- Referrals and provision of fall and injury prevention resources in eligible individuals’ local communities.
- In-home environmental assessments.
- Instruction on behavioral, physical, and environmental aspects of injury prevention.
- Purchase of injury prevention equipment, services, materials, and labor costs.