Older Adult Falls: Effective Approaches to Prevention

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• Alternative Title:
  Curr Trauma Rep
• Personal Author:
  Dellinger, Ann
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  The issue of older adult falls combines a problem with high incidence and high injury susceptibility with an increasing population at risk. A firm understanding of both fall risk factors and effective strategies is required to reduce risk and prevent these injuries.
  
  Recent Findings
  
  Each year, 28.7% of older adults aged ≥65 sustain a fall. At the national level, this represents 29 million falls resulting in 27,000 deaths and 7 million injuries requiring medical treatment or restricted activity for at least 1 day. There are several strategies that have been shown to effectively reduce the risk or the incidence of falls.
  
  Summary
  
  More than 90% of older adults see a medical provider at least once a year providing an opportunity to identify and address fall risk factors. Comprehensive fall prevention in the primary care setting is both feasible and practical.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Clinician Role Fall Prevention Effective Fall Prevention Fall Prevention Senior Falls
• Source:
  Curr Trauma Rep. 3(2):118-123
• Pubmed ID:
  28845383
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5568681
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  3
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:648f3357ac3cc2abba5e3c0dd4efe84a80a64bd15b062946be1637748a149282
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/48181/cdc_48181_DS1.pdf
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