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Title 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]
©2001

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 W'PONDS  613.04380994 Nat/Fpa  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents 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
Commonwealth of Australia 2001
Subject Older people -- Wounds and injuries -- Australia -- Prevention.
Falls (Accidents) in old age -- Australia -- Prevention.
Health planning -- Australia.
Aged.
Accidental Falls -- prevention & control.
Accidental Falls.
Wounds and Injuries.
Aged.
Wounds and Injuries -- prevention & control.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Author Australia. Department of Health and Aged Care.
National Ageing Research Institute (Australia)
ISBN 0642735190