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The numbers of older people living in residential and nursing home care in the UK have risen exponentially since the early 1980s when the closure of long–stay geriatric wards and changes in social security funding of care home places led to a rapid expansion of the care home industry. While...
Fall prevention in residential care: a cluster, randomized, controlled trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004;52(4):524-531.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 9. Neyens JCL, Dijcks BPJ, Twisk J, et al. A multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in psychogeriatric nursing home patients, a...
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Prevention of falls and fall related injuries in older people in nursing homes and hospitalsElderlyfallssystematic reviewOlder people in residential care fall about three times as frequently as those living in the community. In part, this reflects higher incidences of risk factors for falls such as...
‘Exercise’ interventions may be the most appropriate falls prevention intervention for older adults in RAC and community settings as it is beneficial for multiple fall-related outcomes (falls, fall-related fractures, and people who have had a fall). Augmenting ‘exercise’ interventions to become ...
important thing is that these methods work if someone cares enough to figure out what the patient needs. This is why the standard for fall prevention mandates that nursing and other staff systematically reevaluate the effectiveness of the measures taken and devise new ones in the face of new ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the cost-effectiveness of a multifactorial fall prevention program in nursing home residents. Given a willingness-to-pay (WTP) of 50,000 EUR per year free of femoral fracture, the probability that the intervention is cost-effective is 83 %.Despite thei...
A fall prevention program for elderly individuals. Exercise in long-term care settings. The purpose of this research was to explore the role of exercise in preventing falls, specifically assessing the effectiveness of an ankle strengthening an... D,P,Schoenfelder - 《Journal of Gerontological Nursi...
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