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Falls - risk assessment - Management
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- Strength and balance training is most likely to benefit older community-dwelling people with a history of recurrent falls or balance and gait deficit.
- Multifactorial interventions with an exercise component are recommended for older people in extended care settings (such as care homes) who are at risk of falling.
- A home hazard assessment and safety modifications should be offered to older people who have received treatment in hospital following a fall.
- To reduce the risk of falling, psychotropic medication should be reviewed, with specialist input if appropriate, and discontinued if possible.
- Older people with cardioinhibitory carotid sinus hypersensitivity (an exaggerated response to carotid sinus baroreceptor stimulation resulting in dizziness) who have experienced unexplained falls should be considered for cardiac pacing.
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