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Breaking the fall
— [measures to address the health costs of falls at home] | | Author(s) | Mike George |
| Journal title | Care and Health Magazine, issue 48, 5 November 2003 |
| Pages | pp 30-32 |
| Source | http://www.careandhealth.com |
| Keywords | Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Projects. |
| Annotation | Four out of ten admissions of older people to nursing homes are the result of a fall, and the problem costs health and social care services £1 billion a year. Standard 6 of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) relates to falls, and local authority organisations are required to have a specialised and integrated falls service in place by April 2005. The Department of Health (DH) has also issued a guide, "How can we help older people not fall again?". The author reports on examples of how the problem is being tackled. The London Borough of Hackney has a Community Falls Network for older people at risk, which offers exercise classes and t'ai chi. Other initiatives - such as the Northampton Healthy Communities Collaborative, and a pilot site in the Wirral - come under the National Falls Collaborative. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031209205 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LK2: 3E * |
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