Kenneth LaBore is a Minnesota Attorney who practices in the areas of Elder Negligence and Abuse. Mr. LaBore has a history advocating on behalf of the vulnerable and elderly holding corporations and other organizations accountable when they fail to provide proper care.
This web-site is the US Dept of Health & Human Services site and is good for anyone who is interested in or who needs good sound research based information regarding the prevention of falls.
He has looked at the problem from 6 angles as follows;
1 How big is the problem?
2 How serious are these falls?
3 Why do falls occur more often in nursing
homes?
4 What are the most common causes of nursing
home falls?
5 How can we prevent falls in nursing homes?
6 Do physical restraints help prevent falls?
Unfortunately, the web site has been laid out poorly and some of the text is over-writing other bits of text. I have e-mailed the web master to alert him to the problem, so hopefully, by the time this is published in our newsletter, this will have been corrected. If not, the the easiest thing to do is to click your mouse above the affected area and drag the cursor down and this will highlight the text which will make it easier to read.
