num_pages: 196
description: "This accessible quick-reference guide outlines and details all the most current medical, rehabilitative, and environmental information on falling. Readers will learn: the most common factors that cause older people to fall; how to assess a person's risk of falling, including an easy-to-use screening tool; the critical steps to take when a person falls; how to adapt the environment of each type of facility to prevent falls; how to minimize or eliminate restraint use; the "eyes and ears" program - an early-warning system for fall risk; and the consequences of falls for older people their families, and the facility." This book provides the practical recommendations, modifications, types of equipment, and resources that will improve the safety, health, and quality of life of older patients and residents of long-term care facilities. It also includes photocopiable forms and discharge checklists.
language: English
title: Falls in Older Persons : Prevention and Management
titlecomplete: Falls in Older Persons : Prevention and Management
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Health Professions Press