A new study has found that nursing homes with higher staffing levels report fewer injurious falls among long-stay residents.

In postacute care, we have built a quality architecture that treats falls as actionable events and functional decline as expected aging. The resulting safety-without-recovery trade-off is not a ...

Disabled elderly old man patient with walking stick fall on floor and caring young assistant at nursing home, Asian older senior man falling down on lying floor and woman nurse came to help support A ...

Four of every 10 American seniors who suffer a fall and end up in the ER with head trauma get no follow-up care once they go home, a new study finds. "Only 59% of our study subjects had follow-up with ...

Falls increased the likelihood of nursing home placement among older adults, according to a January study published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. Researchers used Medicare Current ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The USPSTF recommended multifactorial interventions alongside exercise for fall prevention. Fall risk factors ...

Falls in acute care settings represent a significant challenge to patient safety, with potentially severe physical, psychological, and economic consequences. In hospitals, falls can lead to injury, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services do not reimburse fall-related costs, so falls represent a significant cost burden for hospitals. In a new study at two health systems, the average total ...

Getting a call that your parent has fallen in a nursing home can be deeply unsettling. You may try to stay composed and trust what you are told, but questions sometimes linger. The explanation feels ...