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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FALLS AMONG THE ELDERLY PEOPLE

Teleshia Colvin

Southern New Hampshire University

02/12/2022

Dionyssiotis, Y. (2012). Analyzing the problem of falls among older people. International journal of eneral medicine, 5, 805. DOI: 10.2147/IJGM.S32651

According to the article, there are numerous problems that the elderly people are exposed to however falls is among their major problems today. Therefore the major role of care givers is to develop appropriate mechanisms that seeks to provide maximum care to them. Additionally there is need to promote the maximum possible functionality therefore preventing feelings of disability. The authors agree that falls results from the person moving to rest inadvertently to the ground, therefore falls are not always resulting from epileptic seizure, violent blow, paralysis or loss of consciousness. Hence intrinsic activities do not lead to falls but a person coming to rest unintentionally. The authors agree that falls are related to increased mortality, functionality loss, admission into nursing homes prematurely and reduced morbidity. Some of the risk factors associated with falling among the elderly includes environmental problems, disease and aging. This article will be applicable in my question since we seek to understand the relationship between falls and aging and how potential physical activities can gradually reduce falling risk among the elderly.

Agarwal, G., Angeles, R., Pirrie, M., McLeod, B., Marzanek, F., Parascandalo, J., & Thabane, L. (2019). Reducing 9-1-1 emergency medical service calls by implementing a community paramedicine program for vulnerable older adults in public housing in Canada: a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial. Prehospital Emergency Care. DOI: 10.1080/10903127.2019.1566421

According to the article, numerous authors have been analyzing the issue of falls among older people. But the problem is that some elderly people are more prone to falling than others. An example, those that reside in areas with poor housing have a higher risk of falling compared to those residing in areas with better living conditions. Therefore the authors of this paper sought to understand the difference in fall rates between people that live in places with better care and health services. The data, including health, can provide social demographic, was based on the assessment of older people’s housing facilities. The authors also used the TUG test along with the administration of questions of whether one had fallen in the past year. Collectively about 595 people were engaged in the study. Therefore this study will be relevant for my research since it provides me with an understanding of how one’s living conditions and access to better care may increase or gradually reduce their possibility of falling.

Burns, E., & Kakara, R. (2018). Deaths from falls among persons aged≥ 65 years—the United States, 2007–2016. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 67(18), 509. DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6718a1

According to the authors, most elderly people pass away due to falls leading to unintentional injuries. Statistics show that one in four older people die due to falling. Additionally, in 2016, a total of 29,600 residents aged sixty-five and above passed on whose deaths were directly related to falling, which was a 3% increase from the previous year. To prove this point, the authors analyzed all the death certificates within 50 US states for people aged over sixty-five additionally, they analyzed the data from the state and national trends on elderly mortalities. Based on the assessment, the authors realized that between 2007 and 2018, there was a 31% increase in older adults’ deaths. However, the falls were related to other factors, including chronic conditions, reduced activities, neurologic diseases, and arthritis. Therefore this research will be essential for my study since it provides me with summarized reports of mortality rates per state along with the major causing factors. Therefore through the research, we will understand which groups are more affected and potential remedies.

Annotated bibliography.

Morello, R. T., Soh, S. E., Behm, K., Egan, A., Ayton, D., Hill, K., ... & Barker, A. L. (2019). Multifactorial falls prevention programmes for older adults presenting to the emergency department with a fall: systematic review and meta-analysis. Injury prevention, 25(6), 557-564. DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-04321

The primary purpose is to look at the use of Information Technology (IT) for falls prevention in the elderly. The article explains how information for IT has been beneficial, especially in improving the quality of special care in every healthcare organization. Also, IT knowledge has contributed to faster delivery of information than before. However, before introducing the information technology, there were some delays in delivering the data. Moreover, may be used to combine some of the strategies that can be used for fall prevention of the elderly and then use those privileges to improve quality care. Therefore, the gathered information for this article mainly concentrates on the methodology to complete the literature review explaining more on merits and demerits of preventions that are put in place to prevent falls for the elderly in the centered-setting for the patients.

Barker, A., Cameron, P., Flicker, L., Arendts, G., Brand, C., Etherton-Beer, C., ... & Hill, K. (2019). Evaluation of RESPOND, a patient-centred program to prevent falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: A randomised controlled trial. PLoS medicine, 16(5), e1002807. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002807

The book researches about elderly patients and how falls are prevented using the meta-analysis. One of the important things discussed in this article is how twenty different studies have met the risk factor criteria. However, this article develops some unique methods to create effective and proper fall prevention for elderly patients with dementia. Gender and age diagnoses like Parkinsonism, cognitive disorders, dementia and musculoskeletal problem are the examples that are used when performing this study. Therefore, this article was used to gather important information and analyses data concerning the fall prevention of elderly patients. The paper usually explains how effective data collection is essential, especially when coming up with ways of preventing falls in elderly patients and helps in improving healthcare quality by providing them with an effective way of fall prevention.

Morris, R. L., Brand, C. A., Hill, K. D., Ayton, D. R., Redfern, J., Nyman, S. R., ... & Barker, A. L. (2016). RESPOND: a patient-centred programme to prevent secondary falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall—protocol for a mixed methods programme evaluation. Injury prevention, 22(2), 153-160. DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2014-041453

This book talks about coming up with tools that can be used to determine the vulnerability to fall that an older person was still staying in the facility of the patients. The developing device is the best method used in this article to prevent the fall through descriptive and explanatory studies of the qualitative approach. The article explains more on the fall prevention of older people and the methods the community shod uses to get rid of them. It is well explained in the article that healthcare facilities should come up with the best admission methods for elderly patients by reducing the falls on the admissions. This article was preferred because it addresses the vulnerability of older patients, and the risks are recognized.