North Dakota Peer review provided by: Cynthia Anderson Background and Rationale Falls among any individual can cause significant trauma‚ often leading to an increase in mortality. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012)‚ one in every three adults over the age of 65 falls each year. Long-term care facilities account for many of these falls‚ with an average of 1.5 falls occurring per nursing home bed annually (Vu‚ Weintraub‚ & Rubenstein‚ 2004). In 2001‚ the American
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of Exercise May Cause Falls in the Elderly Problem Section Falls are a major source of death and injury in elderly people. For example‚ they cause 90% of hip fractures and the current cost of hip fractures in the US is estimated to be about 10 billion dollars (Kato‚ Izumi‚ Hiramatsu‚ & Shogenji‚ 2006). Ensuring patient safety is one of the main reasons given for use of restraints. However‚ according to Jech (2006)‚ the use of physical restraints is unlikely to prevent falls. Physical restraints
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whether multimedia fall prevention education using different instructional strategies increases older adult’s knowledge of fall threats and their fall prevention behaviors. The population being studied in this research is community dwelling older adults who participated in response to flyers or through senior housing and community facilities. There are fifty-three of these older adults who are 65 years old or older and have no physical or mental disabilities. The nursing intervention involved in this
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could take to create more responsible alcohol consumption among college students would be to lower the legal drinking age to eighteen or nineteen. King‚ K. A.‚ & Vidourek‚ R. A. (2012). Teen Depression and Suicide: Effective Prevention and Intervention Strategies. Prevention Researcher‚ 19(4)‚ 15-17 Ashford Library Teen depression and suicidal behaviors are intricately intertwined‚ with untreated depression being a leading cause of adolescent suicide. The authors discuss the extent of and connection
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resources/risk management regarding the number of patient falls‚ and number of staff injuries‚ adjusted for census‚ that were due to patient transfers. This includes information from incident reports and industrial injuries reports. A reduction in both the number of injuries and days offs as a result of those injuries‚ as well a reduction in the number of patient falls during transfers would be expected in a successful program. “The best measure of falls is one that can be compared over time within a hospital
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for the Homeless 2201 P Street‚ NW Washington‚ DC 20037-1033 http://www.nationalhomeless.org Tel. 202-462-4822 Fax. 202-462-4823 Email. info@nationalhomeless.org Homelessness Among Elderly Persons Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless‚ September 2009. When thinking about homelessness‚ the elderly people issue doesn’t immediately come to our mind. Homeless elders‚ although increasing in numbers‚ continue to be a forgotten population. The poverty rate in 2008 (13.2 percent) was the
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Social Work Intervention in Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS Introduction In India‚ HIV which causes AIDS appeared much later than any parts of the world. However‚ the disease is spreading with unprecedented rapidity and has now emerged as a serious socio-economic and public health problem. HIV and AIDS is a term in today’s world that has become synonymous with epidemic. The truth is that the HIV/ AIDS pandemic have affected not only the adults but even the youth and the children. Hence‚ it becomes
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Top Ten Problems the Elderly Face With Transportation Add to my favorites Print Jan 17‚ 2011 | By Walt Pickut Top Ten Problems the Elderly Face With Transportation Photo Credit Jupiterimages/BananaStock/Getty Images You might be called elderly if you are older than 60‚ by some definitions‚ and your physical abilities might start limiting your freedom to go where you want to go when you want to go there. For instance‚ according to a 2011 report by statisticians at Caregivers Library‚ there
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Care for the Elderly The greatest challenge for health care is for the Elderly. The elderly population has been rising steadily for the past few decades. The elderly population is usually defined as people aged 65 years or above. However‚ a longer life span in the elderly population brings along poorer health. This involves an increased demand for health care services for elderly people. About two-thirds of the elderly population has limited or no monthly income and this generation will have
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The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention Prevention and Crisis Intervention; Unit 5 9/25/2012 The ABC model of crisis intervention is a method created by Gerald Caplan and Eric Lindemann in the 1940s. The purpose of this crisis intervention method is to conduct a brief mental health interviews with clients whose functioning level has been lowered following a stressful precipitating event. The ABC model is a problem-focused approach and has been known to work best when applied within 4 to 6 weeks
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