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Falls in older people: QS86
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
Updated NICE quality standard which sets out best practice for health and social care professionals in preventing falls in older people and assessing older people after a fall. The standard covers older people who are living in the community or staying in hospital. It includes eight quality statements, which cover: identifying older people at risk; multifactorial risk assessment and intervention; checking for injury after an inpatient fall; moving people safely after a fall; strength and balance training, and home hazard assessment and intervention. It highlights the value of health and social care practitioners asking questions about falls during routine appointments to identify older people most at risk and the importance of offering multifactoral falls risk assessment to help to prevent falls, disability and loss of independence. It updates the previous quality standard which was published in 2015. (Edited publisher abstract)
Falls in older people: assessment after a fall and preventing further falls: QS86
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This quality standard covers assessment after a fall and preventing further falls in older people living in the community and during a hospital stay. It covers secondary prevention which focuses on interventions targeted at older people with a history of falls. The standard consists of concise and measurable quality statements designed to support the improvement. The quality statements cover: checks for injury after an inpatient fall; safe manual handling after an inpatient fall; medical examination after an inpatient fall; multifactoral falls risk assessment; strength and balance training; and home hazard assessment and interventions. This standard was updated in 2017. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental wellbeing and independence for older people: QS137
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- London
This quality standard covers interventions to maintain and improve the mental wellbeing and independence of people aged 65 or older, and how to identify those at risk of a decline. It includes three quality statements which are for older people who are at risk of a decline in their independence and mental wellbeing to be identified by service providers; offered tailored, community-based physical activity programmes; and offered activities to build or maintain social participation. For each statement, the standard provides an overview rationale, the quality measures and data sources can be use measure quality improvement. It also outlines what the standard means for service providers, health and social care practitioners and commissioners. The standard aims to improve outcomes for older people in the areas of quality of life, social isolation and loneliness and level of physical activity. The standard does not cover people who live in a care home or attend one on a day-only basis. (Edited publisher abstract)