Essays on Fallers

Introduction:

“Dementia” defines a clinical syndrome exemplified by long-term decline in mental functional ability, such as waning intellectual abilities, in a conscious individual. The primary symptoms of dementia include loss of memory, decline in cognitive abilities such as learning and comprehension, judgment, communication, and loss of attention and orientation to oneself and time aspects. In addition, the patient may present hallucinations and delusions in form of paranoia in advanced stages (Raydin & Katzen, 2013). The syndrome is a progressive condition that worsens with time. The experiences of the condition among patients may vary, just like the several causes that trigger the development of ...

Implementation Plan

Implementation Plan This Capstone Project focuses on the fall of elderly patients in hospitals. The intervention proposed by this researcher is proper assessment and customizing fall prevention, and the measured outcome is decrease in fall rates. Below are details on how this project is going to be implemented.

This capstone project requires approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Grand Canyon University. This researcher acquires information for the documents needed in the application process and the procedures for review. Constant communication is maintained with the professor and adviser to ensure that the study is done according ...

Bloch, F., Gautier, V., Noury, N., Lundy, J.E., Poujaud, J., Claessens, Y. E. & Rigaud, A.S. (2011). Evaluation under real-life conditions of a stand-alone fall detector for the elderly subjects (Bloch et al., 2011). Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 54 (2011):391–398. This quantitative study by Bloch et al., evaluates the experience of 10 elderly adults aged 75 and above with the use of the VigiFall. The purpose of the research was to also to assess the participants’ acceptability and tolerance of the device in real-life settings. The accelerometric sensor of VigiFall was attached to the participants’ thorax ...

One of the 15 articles for my study is the research conducted by Mamun & Lim (2009) in Singapore entitled Association between falls and high-risk medication use in hospitalized Asian elderly patients. Below are the answers to three questions taken from Fineout-Overholt et al.’s Critical Appraisal Guide for Quantitative Studies.

What is the sample size? The sample size is 596 patients. This is divided into 298 fallers and 298 non-fallers. The fallers were 65 years old and above (their average age was 75.8) and majority of them were male (60%). Those who experienced at least one fall during ...