News Release                              For Immediate Release

                                                                                                                           April 3, 2006

Fifth Annual Falls Prevention Tea

“Help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” It’s a phrase heard too often in Grey Bruce. This area has both a higher number of seniors than the provincial average and a higher number of hospitalizations due to falls.

The fifth annual “Stay on Your Feet Tea”, sponsored by the Community Coalition for the Prevention of Falls in Older Adults, offers information on osteoporosis and preventing falls. Dairy Farmers of Canada Dietitian Helen Bishop MacDonald, author of The Everyday Calcium Cookbook, will speak on “Osteoporosis ~ never too late to protect your bones”.  This event takes place April 27 at the Trillium Court Seniors Community, 550 Philip Place, Kincardine. Exhibits from local health care agencies open at 1:30 p.m.; tea is served at 2:00 p.m. followed by Helen Bishop MacDonald’s presentation.

Admission is free; donations go to support the work of the coalition.

For further information call Public Health at 519-881-1920 visit our website at www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca

For more information:

Marguerite Thomas, RN., BScN.

Injury Prevention Program

Grey Bruce Health Unit

519-881-1920 ext. 246