| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Preventing falls and fall-related injuries among older people | | Author(s) | Robyn Norton |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 18, no 4, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 160-166 |
| Keywords | Falls ; Injuries ; Preventative medicine ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Deaths and disability from falls are important contributors to the global burden of disease and injury. Consequently, there is a need to identify and implement strategies that have been shown to be effective in preventing falls and falls-related injuries. This paper looks at how to identify effective interventions for the prevention of falls and fall-related injuries, and gives an overview of known effective or promising interventions. Known effective interventions include risk assessment and targeted multifactorial interventions, physical activity and, possibly, reductions in psychotropic medication as well as the use of hip protective underwear, vitamin D and calcium, and alendronate. The paper concludes that further progress will be made if large-scale randomised controlled trials are conducted, that can both confirm the effectiveness of these interventions and examine other interventions suggested from observational studies. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000127205 A |
| Classmark | OLF: CU: LK2: 7YA |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|