Community Risk Reduction Officers are pleased to offer the NFPA Steps to Safety™ Prevent Fire and Falls at Home program to educate older adults and caretakers about home fire and fall safety through group presentations. The approach is one that promotes independence, collaboration, engagement, and empowerment. Rooted in fire and behavioral science and sound educational principles,  Steps to Safety™ provides the tools to impact their community by reducing incidence and injury from home fires and falls.

At age 65, older adults are twice as likely as the population at large to be killed or injured by fires. By age 75, that risk increases to three times that of the general population—and to four times by age 85.

One in three older adults will experience a fall, sending an average 1 in 17 to the emergency department each year in the US.

There was a 35% increase in invalid assists (also known as lift assists) from 2014 to 2017. Fire service now attends more falls than fires among older adults.* (*NFPA Applied Research)