Individual and community fall prevention strategies
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Letters to the Editor Individual and Community Fall Prevention Strategies
Commission’s report, based in part on our findings and in part on parallel local inquiries, is an example of how this problem can be solved. Like our report, it makes no claims to truth other than its congruity with the reader’s experience. That experience can be powerful. What is the ‘poignant quote’ other than a statement about an identity undermined by practitioner clumsiness? What is discha...
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BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend that fall prevention programmes for older people include multifactorial interventions. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine if randomised controlled trial evidence supports interventions with multiple components over single strategies in community based fall prevention. METHODS We searched the literature for trials of interventions aimed at preventing falls. We in...
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Tuvemo Johnson, S. 2018. Falls and fall prevention in community-dwelling older adults. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1396. 64 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0156-3. Falls are the primary cause of injuries among older adults, and accidents that result from falls can lead to personal suffering and extensive soci...
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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To explore the experience of older adults in their neighborhood in relation to perceived fall risk, fear of falling (FOF), and resources/strategies for fall prevention. DESIGN AND METHODS Fourteen older adults, 65 years of age and older from 3 urban senior centers, participated in this qualitative study. The semistructured interview guidelines and background questionnaire...
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Health care providers have numerous opportunities to intervene with parents and children to promote child safety practices that reduce rates of unintentional injuries. These individual-level interventions may be delivered in a variety of settings such as physician offices, clinics, emergency departments, or hospitals. This article systematically reviews 22 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn058