Carers' concern for older people falling at home: an integrative review.

Ang, SGM; O'Brien, AP; Wilson, A

Carers' concern for older people falling at home: an integrative review.

Ang, SGM O'Brien, AP Wilson, A

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Publisher:: Singapore Medical Journal
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Singapore medical journal, 2020, 61, (5), pp. 272-280
Issue Date:: 2020-05

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dc.contributor.author	Ang, SGM
dc.contributor.author	O'Brien, AP
dc.contributor.author	Wilson, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9611
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-22T19:45:50Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-22T19:45:50Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05
dc.identifier.citation	Singapore medical journal, 2020, 61, (5), pp. 272-280
dc.identifier.issn	0037-5675
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/147443
dc.description.abstract	Falls, the leading cause of injury and death among older people, can have a significant psychosocial impact on carers. Carers play a crucial role in caring for older persons at home and in fall prevention. This review, which included 15 studies, aimed to identify carers' concern about older people falling and its impact. We identified that most carers had concerns about repeated falls in older people, unknown consequences of falls and care recipients' non-adherence to fall prevention advice. These concerns, in turn, affect carers' physical and psychological health, lifestyle, caregiving burden and use of fall prevention strategies. This paper highlights the importance of recognising carers' fall concern so as to identify carers' needs and awareness of fall prevention in older people living at home. Greater insight into carers' fall concern could facilitate the implementation of new strategies to manage older people's fall risk as well as improve carers' well-being.
dc.format	Print-Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Singapore Medical Journal
dc.relation.ispartof	Singapore medical journal
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.11622/smedj.2019142
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	11 Medical and Health Sciences
dc.subject.classification	General & Internal Medicine
dc.title	Carers' concern for older people falling at home: an integrative review.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	61
utslib.location.activity	Singapore
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Abstract:

Falls, the leading cause of injury and death among older people, can have a significant psychosocial impact on carers. Carers play a crucial role in caring for older persons at home and in fall prevention. This review, which included 15 studies, aimed to identify carers' concern about older people falling and its impact. We identified that most carers had concerns about repeated falls in older people, unknown consequences of falls and care recipients' non-adherence to fall prevention advice. These concerns, in turn, affect carers' physical and psychological health, lifestyle, caregiving burden and use of fall prevention strategies. This paper highlights the importance of recognising carers' fall concern so as to identify carers' needs and awareness of fall prevention in older people living at home. Greater insight into carers' fall concern could facilitate the implementation of new strategies to manage older people's fall risk as well as improve carers' well-being.

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