Prevention of falls strategy is in danger of collapsing
The HSE Prevention of Falls Strategy has had no discernible impact on the number or rate of hospitalisations due to falls in older people, the RCPI Winter Scientific Meeting in Dublin last week heard. Lloyd Mudiwa, Irish Medical Times writes:
In 2008, the Executive, Department of Health and the National Council on Ageing and Older People (NCAOP) produced a strategy to prevent falls and fractures in Ireland’s ageing population.
Dr Anne O’Farrell and Dr Davida de La Harpe in the HSE’s Health Intelligence Unit, based at Stewart’s Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin, conducted their study to investigate if this strategy had impacted on inpatient hospital admissions for falls in older people.
“It would appear that the HSE Prevention of Falls Strategy has had no discernible impact on the number or rate of hospitalisation due to falls in older people,” they concluded.
Nonetheless, they said it was possible that the rate of rise of hospitalisations had been slowed.
Read full article here
Similar entries
- Strategy to Prevent Falls and Fractures in Ireland’s Ageing Population - Full report
- Economic Consequences of Falls and Fractures Among Older People
- Falls Awareness Day 2011
- Thousands of elderly patients suffer accidents in hospital
- Effect on falls of providing single lens distance vision glasses to multifocal glasses wearers
- Preventing Falls and Fractures
- UK community falls prevention service halves falls rate in older people
- National Audit of the Organisation of Services for Falls and Bone Health of Older People
- PCOs failing to commission falls and bone health services
- Community falls prevention for people who call an emergency ambulance after a fall: randomised controlled trial
