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Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips: The ultimate guide to accident prevention and first aid; helping us stay safe, healthy and active as we get older.
Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips: The ultimate guide to accident prevention and first aid; helping us stay safe, healthy and active as we get older.
Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips: The ultimate guide to accident prevention and first aid; helping us stay safe, healthy and active as we get older.
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Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips: The ultimate guide to accident prevention and first aid; helping us stay safe, healthy and active as we get older.

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Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips has been written for people caring for older friends and relatives; children caring for elderly parents, for spouses, for older people wanting to keep themselves that bit safer and for anyone working with or caring for older people. It is designed to help you take measures to prevent life-threatening inju

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Release dateJan 31, 2018
ISBN9780995490062
Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips: The ultimate guide to accident prevention and first aid; helping us stay safe, healthy and active as we get older.
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Hammett Emma

As a qualified nurse, mother and first aid trainer with over 30 years health and teaching experience; Emma Hammett truly appreciates the vital importance of first aid. Emma writes as first aid expert for numerous print and online publications and frequently appears as press spokesperson on first aid, health and accident prevention issues. Emma draws upon her professional and personal experience to provide an engaging and authoritative guide to preventing and treating accidents. Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips is Emma's third book. 'In Slips, Trips and Fractured Hips, Emma discusses safety in relation to older people and uses her many years of experience to give good advice about preventing the most common accidents. Falls and other unintentional injuries are not an inevitable part of ageing and we hope that through the advice given in this book, older people and their loved ones will be able to take steps to prevent them from happening. Sheila Merrill FRSPH UKPHR, Public Health Adviser RoSPA 'Preventing accidents from happening in the first place is, of course, the best option but when there are problems this excellent book is packed full of practical and sound advice. It is there to help you enjoy your life to hilt. Please use it. Carolyn Cripps OBE, Trustee Age UK, Fit for Safety, Institute of Home and Water Safety Emma's second book; Burns, Falls and Emergency Calls was heralded as the ultimate guide to the prevention and treatment of childhood accidents. 'Burns, Falls and Emergency Calls' is a super informative, but easy to read book, for families, parents, grandparents, childminders and carers, to help everyone become aware of potential risks. It teaches the skills needed to help in an emergency without overwhelming the reader, and of course, that could ultimately save lives. This great book empowers and gives confidence to everyone who reads it and I highly recommend that you go out and grab yourself a copy and keep it handy.' Sue Atkins ITV 'This Morning' Parenting Expert & Author of 'Parenting Made Easy - How To Raise Happy Children' First Aid for Life provides award winning first aid training taught by highly experienced medical, health and emergency services professionals tailored to the needs of those attending. In addition to First Aid for humans, Emma established First Aid for Pets - empowering pet owners and those working with pets to give life-saving treatment in those first vital minutes. Her first book was First Aid for Dogs and it has been a huge success and is currently being translated into multiple languages and distributed worldwide. Emma's mission and the goal of www.firstaidforlife.org.uk, www.onlinefirstaid.com and www.firstaidforpets.net is to make it as easy as possible for people to access first aid skills, removing barriers to learning; such as time, money and geography and give more people the skills and confidence to save lives. Firstaidforlife.org.uk is packed full of free resources and useful updates. If you have any questions please contact emma@firstaidforlife.org.uk or call us on 0208 675 4036

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