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

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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.