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| Perceptions about compliant flooring from senior managers in long-term care | | Author(s) | Chantelle C Lachance, Valeriya O Zaborska, Pet-Ming Leung |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 32, no 2, April-June 2018 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, April-June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 194-210 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Floors ; Falls ; Injuries ; Accident prevention ; Architectural design [care homes] ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Compliant flooring can be broadly defined as "any floor or floor covering with some level of shock absorbency, which includes carpet as well as more purposely designed flooring for fall injury prevention". This Canadian study explored barriers and facilitators to adoption of compliant flooring as a fall injury prevention strategy within long-term care, from the perspective of 18 long-term care senior managers. In-depth interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analysed using the Framework Method. The most important organisational facilitators to adoption were potential for injury prevention and long-term care staff's openness to change. The most important organisational barriers to adoption were negative effects to long-term care staff and financial considerations (i.e., cost and lack of funding). The most important general organisational considerations were uncertainties about clinical effectiveness, effects on long-term care staff, and flooring performance. Overall, compliant flooring was viewed positively for long-term care. The findings also suggest an opportunity for knowledge translation to inform long-term care senior managers about the existing evidence on compliant flooring. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-190615204 A |
| Classmark | YEF: OLF: CU: OQ: KW:YB3: 4C: 7S |
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