Related Fall and Restraint Reduction Information
Glossary
The VA National Center for Patient Safety 2004 Falls Toolkit - This is an outstanding resource for anyone setting up a falls reduction program in a home or facility. Procedures, assessment tools, forms, posters, and helpful hints are included. Very user friendly site.
This is a section of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website.
Designed for fall prevention programs, A Tool Kit To Prevent Senior Falls includes fact sheets, graphs, and brochures about falls and fall prevention for older adults. An excellent unbiased source of information.
Fall Prevention vs Fall Reduction
Success Story: Park Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Selma, AL
Success story: St Alexius Medical Center
Success story: St Clare Hospital
Success story: St Joseph’s Care Center (Extended Care Product News article, Dec 2003)
Patients' Rights to be Free from Restraints
Restraints and the Law
The Aged and Falls -- Characteristics and Facts
Falls and Patient Safety for Older Adults (OWM, Oct 2006)
The abstract for this comprehensive and very well written article follows.
Sharon A. Aronovitch, PhD, APRN, BC, CWOCN
The risk of falling increases with age. Falls in the elderly have been found to raise mortality and morbidity rates and are a leading cause of premature admission to long-term care facilities. Attention to known intrinsic and extrinsic factors that predispose to falling is important in community dwelling and institutionalized older adults. New government guidelines for long-term care facilities have helped focus attention on the safety aspect of fall risk and information about the physical and psychological impact of falling is increasing. Implementation of fall prevention protocols, including the use of fall risk assessment tools, may help reduce the incidence of falls and resultant complications.
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