A palliative approach to falls in advanced dementia - Iaboni A, Van Ooteghem K, Marcil MN, Cockburn A, Flint AJ, Grossman D, Keren R.

Falls are viewed as a preventable cause of injury, functional loss, and death in older adults with dementia, and have been used as a marker of quality of care in long-term care facilities. Despite intensive intervention around fall prevention in these sett...

Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news