Facts About Falls - Online Inservice

Course overview

Every day, health care facilities are dealing with the risk of falls with patients, clients, or residents. Hundreds of cases are documented each year and dedicating time to fall prevention needs to be an important part of our health care education. For many years, it was assumed that falls were unavoidable accidents, due to just being old, and that nothing, apart from restricting a resident's mobility or placing them in physical restraints, could be done to prevent falls. Each year, one in every three adults age 65 and older falls. These falls can cause moderate to severe injuries, such as hip fractures and head traumas, and can increase the risk of early death. Fortunately, falls are a public health problem that is largely preventable and leads to the need to identify risks that attribute to falls.