Instruments for Assessing Fall Risk Factors in Aging
Keywords:
fall, fall risk tool, agingAbstract
Falls in elderly are causing problems to physical psychological and economy and their family. The important step for fall prevention in older persons are assessing fall risk factors by using effective tools which proven can predicting falls and groups of these patients and organization. The tools for assessing fall risk factors in old persons are varied but the instruments in these mentioned are Morse Fall Scale--MFS, The STRATIFY falls risk and The Hendrich II fall risk Model. The comparison of tools for assessment fall risk are fall Morse Fall Scale is most sensitivity but The Hendrich II fall risk Model is high sensitivity and Morse Fall Scale is in second sensitivity of fall tool. Considering for using these three fall risk tools in aging nurses and healthcare personel have to concerning about Fall risk factors in their unit because the three assessment tools are different focus on assessing fall risk factors.
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