Sentences with phrase «fall risks patient»

* Watched suicidal patients and fall risks patient on a one - on - one bases in hospitals (Patient Sitter) to help prevent them from hurting themselves.

Some nursing homes are well - equipped to handle fall risk patients or residents where as others are not as well - equipped or staffed.

Not exact matches

Reduce the risk of patient falls.

Even though early detection of vision difficulties may lead to better quality of life, greater independence and a lower risk of falls in older adults, routine screening doesn't appear more effective than only testing patients with symptoms, the USPSTF reports in JAMA March 1.

Sensory inputs that are out of sync also contribute to the risk of falls in elderly patients.

The research team is doing further investigations various aspects of gait and how diabetes and DPN affects how these patients walk on level ground and on stairs, to identify and further understand factors that may contribute to unsteadiness and in turn the increased risk of falls.

Optometrists can help to prevent falls by avoiding over-aggressive vision correction in older patients at risk, according to the review by David B. Elliott, PhD, 2013 recipient of the prestigious Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award.

The system's ability to track motion through obstructions could make it particularly useful not only in gaming, but also in tracking elderly patients at high risk of falling.

«Progressive lenses or bifocals should never be prescribed to patients who are used to wearing single - vision glasses and who could be characterized at risk for falls,» Dr. Elliott writes.

Importantly, core stabilization exercise minimizes the risks of falls and improves safety during training, critical considerations when working with stroke patients.

«Multifocals are very convenient, but the results of the study suggest that older, frail patients — who are at greater risk of falling — shouldn't wear multifocals after cataract surgery if possible,» said Professor Elliott.

BOSTON — Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research have developed and validated a new assessment to predict the risk of falls in long - term care patients.

Finally, combining the results of PET imaging of declines in these different neuromodulator systems with behavioral studies in patients with Parkinson's disease and rodents with experimental damage to those systems helps us understand how they contribute to both cognitive deficits and the risk for falls.

Recent studies show that patients with Parkinson's disease showed greater endurance and improved balance along with a lower risk of falling after taking Tai Chi classes for six months.

When a widowed mother and nurse named Sophie falls in love with her handsome patient Hector, the couple seems like a match made in heaven — until she discovers that her beau is the leader of a crime ring and her relationship may be putting her fifteen - year - old son's life at risk.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

Monitoring a patient's medications, health and risk factors that may increase the likelihood of a fall also can help prevent one from occurring.

Take an already immobile patient with dementia who, as a result of poor risk assessment and care while in hospital, suffers a fall and fractures a hip.

• Helped immobile patients and those at risk of falls with mobility to ensure their ability to participate in daily therapeutic activities.