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Exploring the relationship between falls in long-term care and psychoactive prescribing

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Date
08/10/2022
Author
Hughes, Lloyd
Keywords
Neuroleptics
Prescribing
Long-term care
Nursing homes
Falls
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
T-DAS
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Abstract
Almost half of patients of nursing home residents experience one fall per year. Falls have associated significant morbidity and mortality, and a proportion of falls can be deemed avoidable. There are a variety of risk factors associated with falls, many of which are not modifiable. There has been increasing focus upon the relationship between psychotropic medications and falls as this is seen a potentially modifiable risk factor. This article reviews some of the clinical challenges about balancing falls risk mitigation strategies with the management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.
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Hughes , L 2022 , ' Exploring the relationship between falls in long-term care and psychoactive prescribing ' , The Journal of Frailty & Aging , vol. Online First , 202253 . https://doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2022.53
Publication
The Journal of Frailty & Aging
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2022.53
ISSN
2273-4309
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
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The author is completing the work as part of a National Education Scotland funded fellowship.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26167

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