Stop The Falls! A framework for injury prevention outreach for older adults presented by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Committees
Author Department
Surgery
Document Type
Article, Peer-reviewed
Publication Date
11-2024
Abstract
With the increasing age of the population in the USA, fall prevention events to target older patients are imperative. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma hosted a fall prevention event at the host city of the 2023 Annual Meeting. We review the planning and implementation of this "Stop the Falls" event, in hopes that other institutions may benefit and sustainably effectuate fall prevention events for an increasingly geriatric population.
Keywords: Accident Prevention; Multiple Trauma; epidemiology; geriatrics.
Recommended Citation
Egodage T, Duncan TK, Ho VP, Joseph D, Putnam AT, Burruss S, Bongiovanni T, Knight-Davis J, Adams SD, Gorman E, Jarman MP, Ahmed N, Ratnasekera A, Prabhakaran K, Cohan C, Hornor M, Colling KP, Joseph B. Stop The Falls! A framework for injury prevention outreach for older adults presented by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Committees. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2024 Nov 26;9(1):e001487. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2024-001487.
PMID
39610676