Background: Fall is a sudden, unintentional change in position causing an individual to land at a lower level.

Aim: This study will find out the relationship between the nursing home structure and prevalence of falling

down in nursing homes.

Method: Face to face Questionnaire for collecting information has been conducted after survey some previous

studies dealing with the same subject.

Result: The highest percentage of falling down among the studied sample of old adults was related to

polypharmacology by proportion of 79.4%.

Conclusion: This study concludes that there is a high prevalence of injuries post falling down in the Palestinian

nursing homes. The most frequent falling down was related to polypharmacology by proportion of 79.4%.

Keywords: older adult, nursing home, physical disabilities, polypharmacology, head injury, bruises, soft tissue

injury, Dementia, osteoporosis.

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Title

Scientific Cooperations , VOLUME ISBN: 978-605-86637-2-5 , ISSUE NO ISBN: 978-605-86637-2-5 , PP null (2014/2015) .

Publisher

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Publisher Country

Palestine

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

1

Year

2014

Pages

107-118