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Sunrise Health Region Home Care
Background
• Esterhazy Home Care approached us enthusiastically wanting to be part of this collaborative.
• They recognized that falls were being under reported within their service and wanted to do something about this.
• The population that we are looking after is mostly elderly with many people that have chronic disease issues.
Aim of The Home Care Team
• Our aim was to reduce falls occurring within the home care population.
• To do this we needed to create reporting systems to capture who was falling and why.
• The purpose was to improve the service to the client’s that we serve in the Esterhazy area.
TEAM
• This is a collaborative project being worked on by the Professional Practice department and the Esterhazy Home Care Team.
• Together we are building a falls program to protect our Communities.
Goals
• That every client will have a Tuggs test and environmental assessment completed to provide us with a baseline.
• That all falls will be assessed within 30 days of being reported.
• That the falls interventions will be noted in the clients chart and in the communication book in the home.
Results
Results Continued
Changes Tested
• We have implemented Calendars for our clients to mark in dates when they have not fallen.
• We have created forms that will capture falls as well as look at interventions to limit clients from falling again
• We have implemented Tuggs testing and Environmental scans to provide baseline assessments on all clients.
Lesson’s Learned
• Change occurs slowly. • That the planning of the initiative is crucial to
having a successful roll out. • That knowing why clients fall and where helps
us to look at what we can do about their falls. • Client’s have control of the recommendations
we make to them in this setting. • Communication is key, without it all other
activity grinds to a halt.
Next Steps
• We plan to continue gathering data and making sure that our reporting systems work.
• Working with the physicians and pharmacist within Sunrise and we hope to have a Vitamin D protocol established in the near future.
• Completing intervention assessments after a fall and looking at how to implement suggested interventions.
Community Pillar• Work the Falls Prevention Collaborative to
implementing three community strategies with a focus on community capacity building, prevention of falls and address issue related to mobility.
• Project identified for 2012 – 2014 are walking clubs, Forever In Motion program implementation and inventory of current prevention programs and community audits to identifying barriers like trip hazards.
• All of which are supportive of the principles that we are building in to the Home Care falls program.