Falls prevention study: A practical approach

✍ Scribed by Terri A. Cutillo-Schmitter; Barry W. Rovner; Yochi Shmuely

• Book ID: 102894489
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 790 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-4797
• DOI: 10.1002/jhrm.5600160407

✦ Synopsis

Program; and Yochi Shmuely, D.S.W., research statistician Wills Eye Hospital Ge r i a t r i c Psych ia tr y Program, and Thomas Jet f erson University lntroduc tion Falls commonly occur among aging individuals (refs. 1-3) particularly when they are ill and hospitalized (refs. 4, 5).

Patients in psychiatric settings may be at even higher risk because they are generally ambulatory and usually receiving psychotropic medications (refs. 6,7).

Restraints are used to prevent falls in psychiatric hospitals and long-term care set-