Seniors Festival | Health Help: Healthy Bones and Osteoporosis

Live Life in Colour by empowering yourself and raising your health information awareness of having healthy bones & preventing osteoporosis

Help raise your health information awareness!

Join us at Ryde Library for our free information session to learn how to keep your bones healthy and prevent developing ostroporosis, Osteoporosis is a chronic bone disease affecting over 1.2 million Australians and leading to over 173,000 broken bones each year. Delivered in partnership with Healthy Bones Australia and CPSA.
Topics covered:

• Normal bone function
• Causes of bone loss
• Who gets osteoporosis?
• Risk factors of osteoporosis
• Diagnosing osteoporosis
• Pillars of bone health
• Preventing osteoporosis.

The Health Promotion Service for Older People (HPSOP) from the Comined Pensioners and Superanuants Association (CPSA) is a community-based health education program which provides free health education sessions to seniors in NSW. Established in 1991, HPSOP is funded by NSW Health through the Western Sydney Local Health District.