Prevention of Falls Network Europe

If you would like to find out what ProFaNE is the About ProFaNE pages contain information about each of the Work Packages and the Co-ordinating Centre. For each section the aims and objectives are outlined, the people involved are listed and relevant publications, resources and events listed where appropriate.

More information on the people involved with ProFaNE is available in the Profiles section. Anyone can apply for a ProFaNE profile.

The ProFaNE Discussion Board is an online forum where you may pose questions to the worlds largest community of Falls Prevention Experts - need we say any more?

The ProFaNE Resource Directory is an online file store of all the very best Falls Prevention resources available on the Internet organised into a heirarchical directory structure to help you find your way around.

There are over one thousand resources on ProFaNE so to help you get started we have selected a few of the best and organised them according to your profession in the ProFaNE Recommended Resources section.

New resources are added to ProFaNE on a regular basis and one of the best ways to keep up to date with these new additions is to monitor the Latest Resources section. This information is also available as an RSS feed.

We understand how difficult it can be to find things on the internet so we have created a very powerful search engine for you that utilises Google. To find out more visit the Search section.

Presented in a traditional calendar format the ProFaNE Calendar aims to provide information on all Falls Prevention events around the world. This section is currently under redevelopment - update coming soon.

If you register with ProFaNE you will receive a free regular update newsletter with information about updates to the site, discussion board activity, news of conferences and special features relevant to Falls Prevention. All the previous newsletters are available in the ProFaNE Newsletters archive.

Finally there is a Help section which contains a series of PowerPoint presentations covering basics like registering and using the discussion board. This section is currently being redeveloped - coming soon.

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