Preventing Falls in Long-Term Care

The Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long Term Care (CLRI) at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA) offers self-paced orientation courses on fall prevention for clinical and non-clinical team members. Preventing Falls in Long-Term Care for Clinical Team Members teaches members in clinical roles about fall risk factors, falls risk assessments, interventions and strategies for falls prevention, and strategies for communicating about falls prevention with residents, essential care partners and other team members. Preventing Falls in Long-Term Care (Non-Clinical Team Members) teaches non-clinical team members about appropriate awareness and corresponding actions to take to effectively prevent falls and keep residents safe.

Long-term Care Best Practices Toolkit (2nd edition, 2018): Fall Prevention and Management

The following resource is designed to assist Long-Term Care (LTC) homes with the implementation of the Prevention of Falls and Fall Injuries in the Older Adult Best Practice Guideline. Provided by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario.

Methodology

This report is the fourth of its kind, the previous reports being published in 1998 (using 1995 data), 2009 (using 2004 data) and 2015 (using 2010 data). Due to differences in methodology used in this report, it is not possible to draw direct comparisons with previous reports. This report presents data at the national level […]

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Poison Prevention Week social media guide

National Poison Prevention Week aims to draw attention to the causes of poisoning and how to prevent them from occurring. This guide is to help communities and partners use social media to support and promote National Poison Prevention Week 2024!  Who should use this guide  This guide is for all community leaders and partners who use social […]

Social Media Guide for NTDSW 2023

Youth and young adults are killed in road crashes at a higher rate than any other age group under 75 years old. With road crashes being the third-leading cause of death among people aged 15 to 24 years old, this age demographic has the highest rate of involvement in fatal collisions per 100,000 licensed drivers.  […]