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Breaking the fall — [measures to address the health costs of falls at home]
Author(s)	Mike George
Journal title	Care and Health Magazine, issue 48, 5 November 2003
Pages	pp 30-32
Source	http://www.careandhealth.com
Keywords	Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Projects.
Annotation	Four out of ten admissions of older people to nursing homes are the result of a fall, and the problem costs health and social care services £1 billion a year. Standard 6 of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) relates to falls, and local authority organisations are required to have a specialised and integrated falls service in place by April 2005. The Department of Health (DH) has also issued a guide, "How can we help older people not fall again?". The author reports on examples of how the problem is being tackled. The London Borough of Hackney has a Community Falls Network for older people at risk, which offers exercise classes and t'ai chi. Other initiatives - such as the Northampton Healthy Communities Collaborative, and a pilot site in the Wirral - come under the National Falls Collaborative. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-031209205 A
Classmark	OLF: LK2: 3E *
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