Carers' concern for older people falling at home: An integrative review
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Singapore Medical Journal
ISSN
00375675
Volume
61
Issue
5
First Page
272
Last Page
280
PubMed ID
31680184
Publisher
Singapore Medical Association
School
School of Nursing and Midwifery
RAS ID
30839
Funders
Australian Government Research Training Programme Scholarship
Abstract
© 2020 American Physiological Society. All rights reserved. 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.
DOI
10.11622/smedj.2019142
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Ang, S. G. M., O’Brien, A. P., & Wilson, A. (2020). Carers’ concern for older people falling at home: An integrative review. Singapore Medical Journal, 61(5), 272-280. https://doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2019142