Risk of Falls in Older Adults in a Mental Health Unit

Topic - The risk that was
identified in my workplace is
fall in older Adults (over
65years) in an Older Adult
Mental Health Unit in a
hospital setting.

INTRODUCTION
When a person become older adults they experienced numbers of issues in their day to
day life because after 65 they not much capable to do each and every thing in best manner as
well as at this time they also faced number of health issues which impact on their productivity.
The older adults who are more than 65 years experienced numbers of issues or risk at their
workplace as they are not much productive as well as they also take time to adopt new things due
to which productivity of workplace get impacted (Arkkukangas and et.al., 2020). Organization
selected for the respective report is Albert Road Clinic which is a part of Ramsay Health Care.
The respective firm offer outpatient, inpatient as well as community that based mental health
care through comprehensive range of assessment and treatments. A Respective firm treatment
services involves senior service for more than 65 year people, addiction service, day programs
and many more. The respective report is based on the Gibbs model related to the risk that was
identified in respective workplace is falls in older Adults. In addition to this, it will also include
strategies through which a person may resolve issues or risk experienced by the older adults at
the respective workplace.
MAIN BODY
Organization in which I am working is Albert Road Clinic which is a leading specialist
private psychiatric facility that located close to the Melbourne CBD at 31 Albert Road
Melbourne. The respective clinic provide community, outpatient and inpatient based mental
health care services through a broad range of the assessment as well as treatment modalities and
services (Arkkukangas and et.al., 2020). The Albert Road Clinic was specialist in providing
treatment services that include adult inpatient services for the acute psychiatric intervention,
senior services who are more than 65 years, addiction service or rehabilitation or relapse
prevention, community programs related to mental health, young person mental health unit
which include 15 to 30 years age group people, ECT and TMS treatments available, day
programs such as managing mood and dialectical behaviour therapy, outreach and many more.
The respective clinic is home to the Ramsay Health Care Chair of Psychiatry of
Melbourne as well as Professorial Psychiatry Unit. According to the respective firm clinic is a

teaching as well as research active facility which involve in a range of studies in order to
evaluate new treatments as well as it also assess standard of care and its improvement (Baker and
et.al., 2020). Care services or facilities provided by Albert Road Clinic is secure, supportive as
well as comfortable by their own multidisciplinary teams of consultant psychiatrists, consulting
medical practitioners, registered nursing as well as Allied health staff. Respective firm also
provide collaborative care according to need and requirement of individual as well as they also
believe that personalized care of a person also contributes to effective recovery. Moreover,
while conducting working at the Albert Road Clinic I analyze that among the old adults there is
one major risk which is situated with the falls of older people because that may cause savior
injuries. While conducting work at the respective place I analyze that there are several aspects
which leads to the fall situations among the older people. It can be better understand through the
Gibbs model which is mentioned below as through it situation, cause as well as treatment all
factors can be determined in effective manner:-
Gibbs reflective cycle – It is introduced by Graham Gibbs in year 1988 in order to give structure
to learning from the person’s experiences. Through this a person can effectively evaluate its
experience in order to determine the aspects which they faced in past so that they can develop
strategies or plans accordingly as well as effectively (Dillon, Clemson and Keay, 2020). Through
this an individual also able to conclude their own experience in properly according to which they
may develop action plan which help in overcoming risk successfully. It is consist of different
stages that include description, feeling, evaluation, analysis, and conclusion and action plan. I
used this method in order to conduct evaluation of risks that are experienced by older people
related to falls at the Albert Road Clinic. Assessment of respective situation or risk is given
below:-
 Description – The respective part of the Gibbs reflection model include information
related to what happen in a specific situation or with a person. At respective phase no
conclusion is developing in this the main focus will be on the information which is
relevant to the topic. In this some major questions will be answered such as what
happened? When? Where? How did it happen? How they reacted? Did someone react?
Why you are there? and many more (Mathew and et.al., 2020). In respect of my situation
I am working in at the Albert Road Clinic in which when I need to analyze the risk which