Research Progress on Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies of Falls in Elderly Inpatients

Abstract

The importance of falling is becoming increasingly prominent in the health problems of the elderly. Elderly inpatients are at high risk of falling, and falling is one of the important risk factors affecting the physical health and quality of life of the elderly. Based on the occurrence of fall will cause elderly patients with fear of falling, action impaired ability, function dependence, the economic burden and the negative impact of caregiver burden and so on, in the full understanding of the risk factors of elderly hospitalized patients, based on fall prevention strategies at home and abroad are reviewed, to provide personalized for senile inpatients, systematic fall prevention measures, and strengthen the safety consciousness of nursing staff, thus reducing the incidence of an elderly hospitalized stumble, protect the safety of senile inpatients, has become an important part of patient safety, as one of the important indexes of clinical nursing quality evaluation.