Tideiksaar, who is associated with a company that provides educational, legal, and marketing services in connection with fall prevention for older adults, offers a guide for nursing and direct care providers, geriatricians, administrators, allied health professionals, and professional and family caregivers to preventing and managing falls in older people in acute and long-term care settings. He addresses the underlying causes and how TO develop and maintain a fall management program, including medical, rehabilitative, and environmental strategies, and issues relating to restraints. This edition has updated chapters and exercises, with chapters on key process steps and interventions, organizational requirements and evidence-based practice, and new guidelines and forms for prevention programs. (
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