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Tideiksaar, who is associated with a company that provides educational, legal, and marketing services in connection with fall prevention for older adults, offers a guide for nursing and direct care providers, geriatricians, administrators, allied health professionals, and professional and family caregivers to preventing and managing falls in older people in acute and long-term care settings. He addresses the underlying causes and how TO develop and maintain a fall management program, including medical, rehabilitative, and environmental strategies, and issues relating to restraints. This edition has updated chapters and exercises, with chapters on key process steps and interventions, organizational requirements and evidence-based practice, and new guidelines and forms for prevention programs. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Presenting evidence-based practice throughout, this easy-to-read manual is a comprehensive guide to preventing and managing falls in hospitals and long-term care settings. Now in its fourth edition, the award-winning guide explores the internal and external causes of falls, analyzes their consequences, provides clinical assessments for actual falls as well as risks for falling, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to falls management. Jam-packed with practical strategies, assessment tools, and management practices, Falls in Older People includes all the medical, rehabilitative, and environmental strategies needed in any care setting to protect the safety and health of at-risk older adults. Don't miss these useful features: a foolproof, reliable, differential diagnosis screening tool that takes less than 10 minutes to use! tie-ins to the MDS recommendations for restraint reduction or elimination forms, checklists, and summaries that can be easily adapted for in-service handouts a practical "early-warning" system for fall risk New to this edition! Expanded guidelines and assessment tools Step-by-step best-practice procedures from both process and organizational perspectives A complete summary of the most up-to-date, evidence-based practices in fall management and prevention Home safety guidelines for patients and families Nine additional case studies Larger book size for ease of use This is an essential resource for nursing and direct care staff responsible for care planning, along with geriatricians, allied health professionals, administrators, and professional and family caregivers.
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