Description: Nursing Home Falls Kill Over 1,800 Each Year
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Welcome to Nursing Home Falls, an educational web site about falls in nursing homes and what family members should do when their loved one falls in a nursing home.
Placing an elderly family member in a nursing home is a very difficult decision. Many doctors, nurses, and even home health agencies recommend family members place their loved ones in a nursing home when they exhibit mobility problems and dementia. Nursing homes are supposed to provide round-the-clock care to residents, but they are often understaffed, so care of residents is limited. The sad thing is many family members believe that the nursing home will provide a high level of care to their loved ones and
According to the CDC , about 1,800 nursing home residents die every year because of injuries they sustained during falls in nursing homes, but this number refers only to the number of actual reported falls, meaning the real figure is likely much higher. Many nursing home residents who have fallen and sustained serious injuries such as fractured femurs, fractured hips, and fractured cervical spine may live for weeks or months afterwards, but the fractures make their health decline, and they end up succumbing