In the UK alone, the annual cost of falls to the National Health Service (NHS) is estimated as being in excess of £2.3 billion and it is anticipated that this figure will continue to rise [5]. Approximately 30% of older adults over the age of 65 years and 50% of adults over ...
Falls are the main cause of death and injury for older adults in the UK. Many of these falls occur within the home as a result of extrinsic falls risk factors such as poor lighting, loose/uneven flooring, and clutter. Falls education plays an important role in self-management education abou...
Boca, MihaelaDepartment of Neurology, Bristol Brain Centre, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UKMichou, EmiliaDepartment of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, GreeceSpringer International PublishingNeurological Sciences...
At entry, individuals are assigned age, sex, socioeconomic status (SES) quartile, falls history in past year, and frailty index score (range 0–100). The latter was used to group individuals into four frailty categories, applying the same cut-off levels available in literature [46]: fit (...
We ascertained fractures using multiple methods, from a) UK National Health Service (NHS) Digital Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) (Admitted Patient Care and Accident and Emergency data); b) general practices using consultation codes, x-ray reports and hospital correspondence; and c) participant ...
The attendant OT was already working in the NHS and obtained referrer status from all the boroughs to be able to order equipment or adaptations. As in the original New Zealand study, the underpinning approach to promote therapist-client collaboration was the Canadian Model of Occupational ...
In addition to whether an individual reported a fall, we also explored whether individuals were hospitalised as a result of a fall using linked Admitted Patient Care (APC) data from NHS Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). These data provided were available from February 1997 to January 2018, whic...
March2001 StandardSix:Falls „TheNHS,workinginpartnershipwithcouncils,takesactiontopreventfallsandreduceresultantfracturesorotherinjuriesintheirpopulationsofolderpeople.Olderpeoplewhohavefallenreceiveeffectivetreatmentandrehabilitationandwiththeircarers,receiveadviceonpreventionthroughaspecialisedfallsservice‟.General...
Falls are the main cause of death and injury for older adults in the UK. Many of these falls occur within the home as a result of extrinsic falls risk factors such as poor lighting, loose/uneven flooring, and clutter. Falls education plays an important r
Methods Nine thousand eight hundred and eight community-dwelling participants, aged 70 years and older, and 63 general practices in the UK National Health Service (NHS) were included in a large, pragmatic cluster randomised trial comparing screen and treat fall prevention interventions. The ...