Carers’ concern for older people falling at home: an integrative review
| Autor: | Seng Giap Marcus Ang, Amanda Wilson, Anthony Paul O'Brien |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gerontology
Male health care facilities manpower and services Emotions Review Article 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Affect (psychology) Psychological health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine health care economics and organizations Aged business.industry Repeated falls General Medicine Fall risk social sciences Middle Aged humanities Falling (accident) Caregivers Housing Accidental Falls Female medicine.symptom Older people business Psychosocial human activities Fall prevention |
| Zdroj: | Singapore Med J |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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