New Strategies for Falls Prevention

Despite committed effort of our nation ’s experts to develop falls prevention strategies to address this major public health issue for older adults, death from falls continues to increase, by 30% over the past decade. Projections suggest that by 2030 seven older adults will die from a fall every hour (https://www.cdc.gov/homeandre creationalsafety/falls/adultfalls.html). This issue of Clinics of Geriatric Medicine is meant to help health care stop doing what is not working and instead pivot to develop better “behaviors” to address this crisis. To do so, I have pulled together an innovative, multidisciplinary team to brainstorm on new approaches and to help identify our common practices that just do not work.
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research