Falls and Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes

A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature for Personal Injury Lawyers

Publisher: Medifocus Legal
Publication Date: October 19, 2025
Number of Pages: 129
Falls among elderly nursing home residents represent a significant healthcare issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 1.6 million older adults in the U.S. experience a fall in a nursing home, leading to around 1,800 deaths annually from fall-related injuries. Many factors contribute to the high incidence of falls among elderly nursing home residents. These include age-related decline in balance and strength, cognitive impairment, impaired hearing and/or vision, peripheral vascular disease, and diabetic neuropathy. Moreover, environmental factors within a nursing home such as poor lighting, slippery floors, inadequate handrails, and improperly fitted assistive devices can further increase the risk of falls among residents.

To combat this problem, regulatory bodies and healthcare organizations have developed specific guidelines aimed at preventing falls within a nursing home environment. Despite these guidelines, however, challenges persist in consistently implementing and monitoring fall prevention strategies across all nursing homes.

In legal cases involving accidental falls in nursing home residents resulting in serious injuries, the most common claim typically revolves around the issue of negligence. Plaintiffs often argue that the nursing home was negligent in its duty to protect residents from falls by failure to maintain a safe environment, disregarding known fall risks, or failure to implement appropriate fall prevention measures. Arguments may also focus on whether or not the nursing home was compliant with relevant state and federal regulations and guidelines concerning resident safety and fall prevention.

The MediFocus Literature Guide to Falls and Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes is a comprehensive guide to the medical literature that is specifically intended for attorneys whose area of practice includes nursing home litigation. This valuable Guidebook focuses on a broad range of medical-legal issues pertaining to fall-related injuries sustained by residents in a nursing home environment. The Guidebook features over 160 hand-selected journal article references from peer-reviewed journals and includes convenient links to the summaries of all articles. It also includes FREE online access to the full-text version of over 60 articles.

The MediFocus Literature Guide to Falls and Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes is available both as a soft-cover book and as a PDF download. Order your copy today. Please see the side panel for ordering information.
Falls and Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes is a one-of-a-kind literature reference Guide that includes:

• A comprehensive bibliography of 339 journal article references indexed in MEDLINE published in well respected medical and scientific journals.
• Online access to the abstracts (summaries) of the articles.
• Online access to the free full-text version of 61 articles.
• Links to full-text sources of other articles that are available for purchase directly from individual journal publishers.
• A unique "Author Directory" consisting of the names and institutional affiliations of experts who have published and have specialized knowledge about Falls and Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes. The "Author Directory" is a valuable resource for quickly identifying and locating experts for case reviews, opinions, and testimony.

Select examples of topics that are covered by the articles referenced in this Guidebook include:

• Fall prevention in hospitals and nursing homes: Clinical practice guideline.
• STOP-FALLING: A Simple Checklist Tool for Fall Prevention in a Nursing Facility.
• Predicting falls from behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in older people residing in facilities.
• Body Mass Index, Falls, and Hip Fractures Among Nursing Home Residents.
• Prediction of the Incidence of Falls and Deaths Among Elderly Nursing Home Residents
• Medication Use and Fall-Related Hospital Admissions from Long-Term Care Facilities
• Predicting risk of the fall among aged adult residents of a nursing home.
• What happens to patients when they fracture their hip during a skilled nursing facility stay?
• Cost per fall: a potentially misleading indicator of burden of disease in health and residential care settings.
• Falls and Preventive Practices among Institutionalized Older People.
• Incidence and cost of serious fall-related injuries in nursing homes.
• Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities.
• Falls and long-term survival among older adults residing in care homes.
• Predicting falls from behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in older people residing in facilities
• Cognitive function and fall risk among nursing home older adults.
• Person-focused interventions for fall risk assessment, fall prevention and fall injury prevention in long-term care facilities.A study of some factors.
• Optimizing Falls-related Planning and Intervention for Nursing Facilities by Ownership Type.
• Advanced Dementia in Long-Term Care: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Fall Prevention
• Incidence Morbidity and Mortality From Falls in Skilled Nursing Facilities.
• Trajectories of cognitive and physical performance after accidental falls in nursing home residents:

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