| Revista INFAD 2012 |
ISSN EDICIÓN EN PAPEL: 0214-9877 |
| Nº1, Vol. 4, pp. 383-391 | doi: en trámite |
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Assessment of business skills experimental study: aspects and personality traits.
Angela Furfari / Valeria Caggiano. pp. 383-391
Abstract
The National Program For the Health of the Older People (2006) referes that 8% of people aged 65 or above, suffered from, at least, a domestic or a leisure accident, in the last year. The incidence of falls in individuals with 70 years is about 25%, increasing to 35% after the age of 75. In Europe, 50% of the institutionalized elder people fall at least once per year and more than 40% fall more than one time (Caldevilla and Costa, 2009). The increase of the incidence of falls brings individual, famil-iar and economic costs, wich are difficult to evaluate, even for the need of resources and the need of health maintenance associated with the consequences like fractures, as well as the immobility complications that come after.
Methodology: Using the PI[C]OD methodology (CRD, 2009), the study aims to identify and to analyze evaluation instruments that measure the risk of fall in older people.
The 13 studies that composed the pattern are the result of a research carried through in EBSCO; Scielo; B-on; articles; Biomed Central; PubMed; Bibliomed; NursesInfo; British Medical Journal; Cochrane.
Results: The instruments to evaluate risk of fall use different variables to evaluate the same risk, do not deplete the factor that cause the fall and, predominantly, are associated to the evaluation of the risk of fall in a hospital, allow to improve the security of the attended person, help planning dif-ferent preventive cares, and can increase the security in nursing cares and to transform the inci-dence of falls into a quality indicator of the care given, as well as of safe endowments.
This study leaves recommendations for the clinical nursing practical (the necessity to use instru-ment of evaluation of the risk), formation and inquiry.
Keywords:Fall; Aged; Instruments of Evaluation, Risk;
