Falls prevention activities for older people : a national stocktake : report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care Injury Prevention Section / by National Ageing Research Institute
Published
Canberra : Commonwealth Dept. of Health and Aged Care, [2001]
1.0. Background -- 2.0. Project scope and method -- 3.0. Infrastructure and systems to support falls prevention activity -- 4.0. Survey overview: responses across all settings -- 5.0. Falls prevention activity in community settings -- 6.0. Falls prevention activity in hospital settings -- 7.0. Falls prevention activity in residential aged care settings -- 8.0. Falls prevention activity in mixed settings -- 9.0. Sustainability
Summary
Falls among older people is a major public health problem in Australia. A review of the current research evidence of effective falls and falls injury prevention programs in the community and residential aged care and hospital settings highlights growing level of falls prevention activity occurring across Australia
Notes
"July 2000"
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
Also available on the Internet at: http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/stocktake.pdf