Product Description

This easy-to-read manual explores the internal and external causes of falls, analyzes the consequences of falls, provides clinical assessments for actual falls as well as risks for falling, presents intervention strategies, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to falls management. Jam-packed with practical strategies, assessment tools, and management practices, this third edition includes all the medical, rehabilitative, and environmental strategies you will want to implement for prevention and management, plus

• a foolproof, reliable, differential diagnosis assessment tool—Performance-Oriented Environmental Mobility Screen (POEMS)—that takes less than 10 minutes to do! • tie-ins to the MDS • recommendations for restraint reduction or elimination • numerous forms that can be easily adapted for in-service handouts or overheads • four new assessment guidelines • two new calculation tools for measuring fall rates and restraint use rates • six new case studies • a new eyes/ears program, an "early-warning" system for fall risk

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #690839 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"critical tool for any facility or individual seeking to minimize the risk of injury due to falls in elderly people." -- Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, Vol 25, Issue 3

"critical tool for any facility or individual seeking to minimize the risk of injury due to falls in elderly people." --Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, Vol 25, Issue 3

About the Author
Rein Tideiksaar, Ph.D., is President of FallPrevent, LLC, a company that provides educational, legal, and marketing services in connection with fall prevention for older adults. Dr. Tideiksaar has been active in the area of fall prevention for over fifteen years. He has directed numerous research projects on falls and has developed fall prevention programs in community, assisted living, home care, acute care hospital, and nursing facility settings. Dr. Tideiksaar has written numerous articles and book chapters on falls and related topics. He is the author of Falls in Older People: Prevention and Management, Third Edition (Health Professions Press, 2002). In addition to two previous editions of this professional resource, he is the author of Falling in Old Age: Its Prevention and Treatment, Second Edition (Springer Publishing Company, 1997).

From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Tideiksaar was the Senior Vice President of Fall Prevention and Injury Reduction Systems, ElderCare Companies, Inc., Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. Prior to 2000, he was Director of Geriatric Educational and Clinical Programs and Director of the Falls and Immobility Program, Department of Geriatrics, Southwest Medical Associates, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada. He has also served as Director of Geriatric Care Coordination, Sierra Health Services, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada, and Director of the Falls and Immobility Program, Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York.

Dr. Tideiksaar obtained a doctorate from Columbia Pacific University and a physician assistant certification from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Tideiksaar completed his geriatric training at the Parker Jewish Geriatric Institute, New Hyde Park, New York.

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