Nursing Care and Management

Nursing Care and Management

Some elderly persons develop symptoms or behaviours in response to a fall, regardless of physical trauma. They may express an enhanced or increased fear of falling that may result in deleterious emotional, psychological or social changes. While fear of falling is mentioned frequently as an adverse outcome of falling, little is known about it. If individuals at risk of developing fear of falling can be identified and fear of falling proves to be an independent factor in functional decline, it may be possible to target clinical interventions to prevent or alleviate this fear and its ...