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| Identifying nursing home residents at risk for falling | | Author(s) | Dan K Kiely, Douglas P Kiel, Adam B Burrows |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 46, no 5, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp 551-555 |
| Keywords | Falls ; Patients [nursing homes] ; At risk ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Falls are common among older people, but particularly so among nursing home residents. The aim of this US study was to develop a fall risk model that may be used to identify prospectively nursing home residents at risk for falling, and to determine whether the nursing home environment independently influenced the development of falls. A total of 18,855 residents in 272 nursing homes participated in the study. Findings showed that fall history, wandering behaviour, use of a cane or walker, deterioration of activities of daily living (ADL) performance, age greater than 87 years, unsteady gait, transfer independence, wheelchair independence, and male gender were the factors associated independently with falling. Nursing home residents with a fall history were more than three times as likely to fall during the follow-up period than residents without a fall history. Residents in homes with the highest tertile of fall rates were more than twice as likely to fall compared with residents of homes in the lowest tertile, independent of resident-specific risk factors. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981009401 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LHB:LF: CA3: 7T |
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