This article was originally published as: Fear of falling
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Abstract
Objective: The purpose of the paper is to describe the ‘fear of falling’ phenomenon; to raise clinicians awareness; to consider the associated risk factors.
Setting: Fear of falling can be experienced in any clinical setting or within people own homes.
Primary argument: Individual clinicians and the treatment and care teams should consider fear of falling in people with a disordered gait or balance, or in the months following a fall, particularly where there is a recognised decline in ‘recent’ activity or obvious activity avoidance and changes in patterns of activity
Conclusions: Fear of falling is an under recognised phenomenon. This paper suggests a range of assessment tools; and outlines some management options that are available to clinicians in order to address the problem of fear of falling.
Authors
- Stephen Harding
- Andrew Gardner
Keywords
fear of falls, falling, older people, anxiety, cognitive impairment
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