The San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting a nursing home patient died while in the home’s care for rehab post hip surgery. The patient had fallen one time, so he was a known fall risk. The nursing home put a monitor on him which notified the staff whenever he got out of bed. The patient got [...]
As I discussed in my why falls happen article, nursing homes know from all the studies that residents have a much higher risk of falling and a much higher rate of injury. Therefore, a nursing home should assume all residents at admission are a fall risk, evaluate the risk, and create fall prevention program. This [...]
One study reported that an average of 43% of nursing home residents fall each year. This is 2 to 3 times more than the average elderly population. This statistic becomes even more remarkable when you consider that a substantial portion of nursing home residents are immobile or bedridden. This makes for a particularly complex and [...]