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Comprehensive fall prevention programs across settings: a review of the literature.

Patricia A MacCulloch1, Terri Gardner, Alice Bonner.   

Abstract

The prevention and management of falls across health care and community settings continues to be one of the greatest challenges in geriatric nursing. This article reviews the literature on fall prevention and management and provides information on national programs and resources, as well as public policy related to falls in the elderly.

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Year:  2007        PMID： 17923287     DOI： 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2007.03.001

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Geriatr Nurs        ISSN： 0197-4572            Impact factor:   2.361


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Authors:  Abraham M Joshua; Vivian D'Souza; B Unnikrishnan; Prasanna Mithra; Asha Kamath; Vishak Acharya; Anand Venugopal
Journal:  J Clin Diagn Res       Date:  2014-03-15

2.  Impact of Fall Prevention on Nurses and Care of Fall Risk Patients.

Authors:  Barbara King; Kristen Pecanac; Anna Krupp; Daniel Liebzeit; Jane Mahoney
Journal:  Gerontologist       Date:  2018-03-19

3.  Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India.

Authors:  Jagnoor Jagnoor; Wilson Suraweera; Lisa Keay; Rebecca Q Ivers; J S Thakur; Gopalkrishna Gururaj; Prabhat Jha
Journal:  Bull World Health Organ       Date:  2011-08-03       Impact factor: 9.408

4.  Moderate resistive training maintains bone mineral density and improves functional fitness in postmenopausal women.

Authors:  Danilo Sales Bocalini; Andrey Jorge Serra; Leonardo Dos Santos
Journal:  J Aging Res       Date:  2010-06-13

5.  The effect of step climbing exercise on balance and step length in chronic stroke patients.

Authors:  Ki-Hyeon Park; Da-Yeon Kim; Tae-Ho Kim
Journal:  J Phys Ther Sci       Date:  2015-11-30

6.  Patterns of perspectives on fall-prevention beliefs by community-dwelling older adults: a Q method investigation.

Authors:  Shueh-Fen Chen; Su-Fei Huang; Li-Ting Lu; Mei-Chuen Wang; Jung-Yu Liao; Jong-Long Guo
Journal:  BMC Geriatr       Date:  2016-07-07       Impact factor: 3.921
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