Interventions to Prevent Fall Injury in Older Clients

Running head: PROPOSAL
Proposal
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1PROPOSAL
Problem statement:
The main aim of my project is to summarize best interventions implemented to prevent
fall injury in older client. The main rationale for research on this topic is the high incidence of
geriatric fall injury and increase in burden of care due to repeated hospitalization (Williams et
al., 2015). According to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017), the rate of
hospitalization due to fall injury in elderly people has increased by 3% per year in Australia.
Apart from common injury such as abrasions, cuts and sprains due to fall, incidence of fall in
elderly are also associated with serious injuries like femoral neck fracture and hip fracture
(Florence et al., 2018). Hence, evaluating risk of fall particularly in elderly is critical because
ageing related changes such as cognitive impairment, poor balance and vision increase the risk of
fall in this population group. The benefit of identifying and analysing fall prevention
intervention for elderly is that these interventions are likely to be tailored made to address the
specific risk factor of fall in elderly and mitigate those risk factors. As ageing related factors
mobility limitation, cognitive decline and polypharmacy predispose elderly to high risk of fall,
the significance of the review of systematic review related to interventions to prevent fall in the
target population group is that it will help to evaluate how far intervention address ageing related
risk factors of fall and which interventions are most effective to be implemented in clinical
setting.
Project design:
To achieve the desired goals of my project, I have chosen systematic review as one of the
research design for my project. In clinical setting, variety of interventions for fall prevention in
elderly has been implemented such as exercise, medication review, fall assessment,