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Falls prevention programme in UK care homes
Falls prevention programmes succeed only by supporting staff long term
BMJ 2022; 376 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o190 (Published 25 January 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;376:o190
- Adam Darowski, consultant geriatrician, clinical lead12,
- Antoinette Broad, advanced clinical practitioner, community services2,
- Kristel Silvester, clinical lead2,
- Paula Hughes, falls specialist2
- 1Department of Clinical Geratology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- 2Oxfordshire Care Home Support Service, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
- adam.darowski{at}ouh.nhs.uk
In their trial of a programme to prevent falls in older people, Logan and colleagues show that training care home staff with written guidance has a short lived effect.1 A persistent effect can be achieved only by nurturing and sustaining staff over the long term.
The approach mirrors FallSafe, a trial to prevent inpatient hospital falls, in which a care …
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