Fall Prevention High Impact
Falls are a marker of frailty, immobility, and acute and chronic
health impairment in older persons. Falls successively diminish function by causing injury, activity limitations, fear of falling, and loss of mobility. Most injuries within the elderly are the results of falls;
fractures of the hip, forearm, humerus, and pelvis usually result from the combined effect of falls and osteoporosis. Prevention of falls must span the spectrum of ages and
health states within the older population and address the range of causes of falls without unnecessarily compromising
quality of life and independence. Intrinsic risk factors for falls are found in controlled studies, which permit the identification of these in danger and suggest potential preventive interventions. Elderly individuals with multiple
health impairments are at greatest risk, but many healthy older persons also fall annually. Current understanding of the etiology of postural instability and falling is restricted, and there's little
information about the effectiveness of interventions to stop falls.
A fall is an unintentional event that leads to the person coming to rest on the bottom or another lower level. Falls are often described in terms of three phases. The primary phase is an initiating event that displaces the body's center of mass beyond its base of support. Initiating events involve extrinsic factors like
environmental hazards; intrinsic factors like unstable joints, muscle weakness, and unreliable postural reflexes; and physical activities on going at the time of the autumn.
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