Talking about fall prevention with your patients

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  Many fall prevention strategies call for patients to change their behaviors by: ; • Changing their medications ; • Doing prescribed exercises ; • Attending a fall prevention program ; • Changing their home environment ; We know that behavior change is di cult. Traditional advice and patient education often does not work. ; The Stages of Change model is used to assess an individual's readiness to act on a new, healthier behavior. Research on the change process depicts patients as always being in one of the five "stages" of change. ; Behavior change is seen as a dynamic process involving both cognition and behavior that moves a patient from being uninterested, unaware, or unwilling to make a change (precontemplation); to considering a change (contemplation); to deciding and preparing to make a change (preparation); to changing behavior in the short term (action); and to continuing the new behavior for at least 6 months (maintenance). ; CDC's STEADI tools and resources can help you screen, assess, and intervene to reduce your patient's fall risk. For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/steadi. ; STEADI-FactSheet-TalkingWPatients-508.pdf
• Series:
  STEADI : Stoping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  4 numbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53415/cdc_53415_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 237.84 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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