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As villages well know, injuries from a fall significantly impacts a person’s health. Falls prevention is a priority for the National Council on Aging and, today, there is a falls prevention program in every U.S. state and in many regional areas. Some villages have become directly involved in these community-wide alliances, which help to position villages as critical partners in healthy and safe aging. More important, falls prevention programs help older adults in our communities to avoid a life-altering injury due to a fall. In this roundtable session, we’ll hear from a few villages that are directly involved in a local falls prevention program—for the benefit of their village members specifically and older adults generally—and talk through some engagement ideas for villages interested in getting involved in their own local falls prevention group.