Falls Prevention and Management for Older Patients in Acute & Sub-acute Care Facilities to Active Aging System

This policy aims to upgrade the existing policy on Falls Prevention and Management for Older Patients in Acute & Sub-acute Care Facilities to be inclined in a somewhat active aging system in the Australian society. It outlines the process for prevention and management of falls among the old adult in the community.

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Executive Summary
In essence, the issue surrounds patients fall particularly old adult in the Australian community
has undoubtedly become a debated aspect for the last couple of decades now. There have been
various policies that have been aimed towards the reduction of falls among acute patients with
advanced age in society in recent times. In this light, it is no doubt this issue is so significant in
Australia. The current falls prevention policy is designed for older people in Western Australia to
reduce the escalating number of falls among the older population. To identify those people that
are a risk of fall in Australian community it is essential to review a rather evidence based risk
factor in the society. This is because falls prevention is an issue that requires close attention
across all lifespan. Consequently, this has led to the revised model of the current policy of Falls
Prevention and Management for Older Patients in Acute & Sub-acute Care Facilities to a
somewhat active aging system that is all inclusive across all ages. The advanced or rather the
updated system is necessary given the overall burden of falls amongst the older population
describing the majority of the people regarded as the old adult falling over the age of 60 years. In
this light, it is essential to focus on the current policy and update it to accommodate a somewhat
active aging system in the Australian community.

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Background
The purpose of this document is to upgrade on the existing policy on the Falls Prevention
and Management for Older Patients in Acute & Sub-acute Care Facilities to be inclined in a
somewhat active aging system in the Australian society. This document will also outline the
process for prevention and management of falls among the old adult in the community.
Moreover, the report provides best practices as well as guidelines with the aim of facilitating the
implementation of an active policy that is grounded at accepting the old people in the community
while valuing the available volunteering works done by this people (Bussolo, Koettl, & Sinnott,
2015). Additionally, the updated plan is aimed at involving the older people in adding value to
the younger generation through caring for them.
Primarily, the current policy tends to showcase how falls injury has become a prevalent
issue among the older generation in various hospitals, therefore, designing the best practices in
the haste of fall as well as injury prevention (Chodzko-Zajko, 2014). Notably, these strategies
include implementation of standard prevention techniques, identifying a specific fall risk while
implementing targeted, individualized plans that are deemed adequate resourced and is regularly
reviewed in the Australian society (Campbell, 2014). However, the current policy fails to
include a strategy that involves the old adult to a somewhat active communal work across the
Australian community. Notably, this has facilitated the need to update the current policy to
ensure that the overall physical support of old adult is enhanced by involving them in communal
activities.

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Introduction
Ideally, fall as well as injury has no doubt continued to be a rather considerable challenge across
the healthcare continuum. In Australia, unintentional falls are considered as common nonfatal
injuries for people who are at least older than 65 years. Research suggests that there has been an
increasing trend in the number of old people who fall victim of fall injuries in various
communities. Notably, this is what designed the existing policy to reduce this trend. However,
due to the demand to increase the number of an old adult in the active aging process in the
society, the newly updated policy focuses in not only improving the physical conditions of the
old people in the Australian community but also engage them actively in various work (El-
Abbadi, Dao, & Meydani, 2014). While the updated policy critiques the existing policy of
patients fall in particular the mature adult to make it all inclusive and accommodate this
individual in cooperative work as well as increasing the pension given to them. The paper will
achieve this by crafting an updated policy that mainly looks at what should be done to improve
the overall opportunities of the active aging system in the Australian community.

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Updated Policy as Part of the Critique of the Existing Policy
The statement of an updated policy from Falls Prevention and Management for Older
Patients in Acute & Sub-acute Care Facilities active aging system
In essence, it is no doubt that social workers are placed in a unique position of creating,
implementing as well as advocating for various policies, programmers, services, and research
that is aimed at benefiting the old population in the Australian society (Kalache, 2016). In this
regards, by recognizing that the existing community affects or cuts through all sectors in the
organization is an important attribute to consider since it encourages the consideration of older
people with the aim of promoting the well-being of the old adult in a particular community.
Some of the policy statements in this regards include,
 Old people are provided with a somewhat safe as well as accessible housing in the
community or even in the institutional settings. This may consist of physical access of
broad public and commercial services in the society.
 There should be the provisions economic, psychological, as well as respite support for the
families in a community and caregivers of all ages.
 Making sure that the there is a promotion and overall strengthening of the entire role of
social work with the aim of meeting the needs of older adults by the use of the practice,
policy, research, as well as advocacy.
 Work towards the introduction of pension to make sure the current basic state pension, as
well as additional top-up benefits, is immediately replaced.
 Ensuring that there are varieties of positive job opportunities with undiscriminating
requirements for old people.

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 In this regard, hold people are given access to financial support that will tend to provide
them with the policy on the retirement benefit.
 Forming a policy where old people are allowed to participate in communal work and
therefore being given small remuneration in return.
 In this regard, old people are given access to an array of health services that are
appropriate to the age and physical condition of the old people in the Australian
community.
With the mentioned policy statements position, old people are therefore able to be granted a
chance in participating the in the communal work or somewhat active areas in the society where
there are allowed to earn remuneration and thus adding value to the Australian economy.
However, to achieve this, there is a need to make sure that old people in the society are accorded
affordable health care services that strengthen them not only emotionally but also physically.
The Main Aim of Updating the Falls Prevention and Management for Older Patients In
Acute & Sub-Acute Care Facilities Policy to Active Aging Policy
The main aim of this policy is to identify the gap the arise with patient falls and adjust it to
improve the physical condition of the old patient in a somewhat active aging process in
Australian society
 The overall decline of the working-age population across EU and Australia.
 Expenditure on the entire pension systems as well as the public finances.
 The overall increasing needs for care particularly for the old people.
 Making sure it finds the diversity that lies among old people’s resources as well as risks.
As a result of these challenges, there was a proposed commissioning of the four main goals with
the aim of increasing the number of old people who actively participate in community

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development. For instance, the policy seeks to increase the overall employment rate across
Europe and Australia through the promotion of rather lifelong learning, more flexible working
arrangements while still improving the available working incentives (Mehrotra & Wagner,
2018). Moreover, the policy seeks to better the overall social protection policies through reverse
early retirement trends, to make sure it supports the researches that are related to the health
policies as well as old age care system. To achieve this, the administration seeks to develop a
strategy that does not tolerate workplace discrimination as well as social exclusion.
Brief Overview of the Policy and How It Impacts On the Health of Older People
Primarily, active aging means creating opportunities where an old adult is given a chance
of staying longer in the labor market, therefore, aiming at improving the overall contribution to
the society through unpaid work in the Australian community as a volunteer or passing on their
skills to the younger generation. In essence, these may include as well as families of the older
people to live autonomously for as much and as long as possible. The policy at hand mostly
concentrates at in identifying the reasons and challenges that come along with eh declining
working-age population across Australian society. In short, this policy tends to discourses on a
somewhat active aging process for the last couple of decades.
Consultation with Consumers and Colleagues to Develop the New or Updated Policy;
Creating a workable active aging policy can be challenging at times. However, through
frequent meetings with targeted consumers as well as colleagues can help improve the
implementation process that is involved (Lin & Huang, 2015). This can be achieved through the
use of a slightly interactive system framework (ISF) as a potential lens through which
consultation is placed within extensive systematic occurrences of any possible dissemination and
implementation effort. According to recent researches, putting discussion within a broad frame is

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beneficial as the overall consolation is focused on a single innovation which is likely to be a
sustainable strategy on its own. This framework is based on the implementation of yet another
framework called the heuristic framework that is considered to be a community-cantered, in that
it commences with what a particular community needs, in this case, being the overall increase of
the involvement of the aging population on active participation in the communal activities. In
essence, this means that for a successful implementation of a particular policy be it new or
updating the existing ones there must be an all-inclusive participation to learn what others think
about the system and most of all be acquainted with the overall needs of the society which is the
consumer in this case regarding the active aging population.
Review of the Evidence Base to Inform the Content of the New or Updated Policy;
In essence, the issues regarding active aging system have been debated topic in
contemporary society for the last couple of decades particularly in the Australian community. In
this light, there has been considerable evidence that outlines an increased engagement in leisure
activities has the overall potential of improving the health as well as the overall wellbeing of the
aging adult in a particular society (Kalache, 2013). For this reason, there is the need to look
closely at the available policy surrounding the aging populace to make sure that they are actively
involved in the working population in any society and in particular the Australian community. In
essence, this focus may prove valuable as well as beneficial to many older women and men who
are known to fulfill critical unpaid roles in any community alignment. Some of these activities
may include caring responsibilities which are in many cases excluded from productivity
definition of an active aging system. When the existing policy is updated, it with therefore allow
the older adult to stop work so that they can care for their grandchildren and thus enhancing the
overall workability of the intermediate generation.

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Review of the Evidence Base Focused On Guidance for Successfully Implementing Policy in
Practice;
Primarily, a successful, as well as active aging policy, tend to challenge the overall
dominance that tends to exist in a deficit model or instead a model that is not all inclusive in as
far as working is concerned. In this light, there is an apparent need to implement a successful
policy that caters on involving the aged adult in the communal work. In this light, there are
undoubtedly various procedures that one can decide to follow with the aim of implementing a
police practice for an active aging population in Australia. Some of the guidelines for this
include,
 Selecting rather appropriate evidence based intervention regarding active aging adults.
This might include looking at critical things that add to the significant effects on the
overall life outcomes that one wishes to improve.
 Identify the necessary resources that can mostly be helpful in the successful
implementation of the incubated policy.
 Identify appropriate as well as necessary implementation sites.
 Look for critical features surrounding the intervention that has to be strictly adhered to
and monitored for the successful implementation of the policy regarding active aging.
 Implementing a system to ensure somewhat close adherence to the essential features
regarding the intended policy.
Recommendations about How to Measure Successful Implementation of New or Updated
Policy;
Although the Australian government has played a significant role in the coming up with a
somewhat active aging a fully comprehensive policy approach has not yet been achieved across

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the Australian populace. To make sure that there is full comprehension of the available scope as
well as the prospective effect of the active aging adult, it is necessary to come up with an outline
that briefly elaborates what a general technique should constitute as well as its entire underlying
principle. In this sense the policy should be aimed at building, expanding, and enhancing the
overall definition of the proposed WHO (2002) definition that famously offered seven important
principles that would act as the basis of the rather comprehensive strategy on successful active
aging (International Longevity Centre Brazil., 2015). Consequently, the first active policy has to
include all the necessary meaningful pursuit that would contribute to personal well-being. In this
light, activities such as volunteering should be taken seriously and as valued as the paid
employment in the society. In this case, removal of the age barrier would be fundamental
towards the achievement of the policy against which the legal protection does exist in many
countries Australia being one of them (Walker, 2016). Adjusting the current administration will,
therefore, make sure that the older adult is given an opportunity of taking care of the
grandchildren, accordingly, increasing the workability of the intermediate generation.
Furthermore, the policy should be designed in a way that it is mostly preventative aspect,
therefore, cutting across all age groups in the process of aging actively across an individual life
course. Within this line, there would be the promotion of somewhat preventative health
interventions that are aimed at tackling the lifestyle, diet, as well as the consumption patterns that
are deemed influential in determining the ill-health of a person in older age (Fernández-
Ballesteros et al., 2013). Thirdly, the policy surrounding active aging has to encompass all
another individual in the society including those that are considered frail and dependent. In this
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in the community. Notably, this has substantially increased the probability of experiencing
sizable loses in a rather cognitive as well as potential physical increases.
On the other hand, international solidarity should be kept as a critical feature of active
aging people involving fairness between generations. This concept should include both the rights
for the individual as well as obligations therefore including the social protection; a rather long-
life education as well as training that is accompanied by commitments with the aim of making
older people active in the society.
Lastly, with the diversity surrounding the Australian society, there is a need of designing
a model of the active old adult that respect the cultural as well as the national difference of the
country. Essentially, this is because there are no doubt large variations across Europe in and in
particular Australia both activities patterns as well as norms concerning activities (Serrat, Villar,
& Celdrán, 2015). In most cases, these structures are confined in economic resources that are
interpreted as a rather determinants of active aging given that a person’s financial situation
affects their entire ability to afford elements of dynamic aging system.

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