How can I prevent falls? Why are falls so easy and how can I prevent them?

1. Check your vision and hearing regularly, and wear appropriate glasses and hearing aids; Choose appropriate mobility aids such as walking sticks, tripods, wheelchairs, etc.

2. Strengthen physical function exercise, exercise to increase musculoskeletal flexibility and endurance.

3. People with dementia or cognitive dysfunction need to be accompanied by someone to participate in their activities.

4. Understand the medicine***, take the medicine regularly, and inform the doctor immediately if you feel unwell. Certain medications can make you feel dizzy when your body shifts, so you should slow down your movements.

5. Improve the environment: sufficient light; Smooth passages; The floor should not be wet; The furnishings are fixed, and daily items are placed in a place that is easy to reach, and try to avoid bending down to pick up objects; The wheels of the bed and the head of the bed should be fixed to avoid moving; The hand shake at the foot of the bed is returned to its position in time after use; The tray should not be placed at the foot of the bed to avoid tripping over others.

Falls in young people are rare and most likely to be mild. However, as middle-aged and elderly people get older, the decline of body muscle strength, joint weakness and uncoordination, and it is easy to fall when walking and daily activities, and more and more elderly people are at risk of falling.

Due to osteoporosis and some other physical diseases in the elderly, falls often lead to fractures, disability and even death of the elderly, becoming the biggest killer of the quality of life of the elderly, and also causing great distress to children.

Therefore, for the happiness and health of the elderly, it is very important to prevent the elderly from falling. By staying active and active, we have the opportunity to keep our muscles strong, our joints moving freely, and our balance to reduce the risk of falls.

However, for many elderly people, due to the decline of exercise ability and physical diseases, active and continuous exercise, such as walking and running, is difficult to continue to do, at this time the best way to exercise is to choose passive exercise, the whole body vertical rhythm can help achieve this purpose, providing a safe, effective and sustainable way of exercise for the elderly. Just stand on it, or sit on a chair, the vertical rhythm can drive your body up and down, easily let your whole body muscles and joints move, keep your body active, and don't worry about safety;

The whole body rhythm training started relatively late in China, and there are not many domestic brands, and now the main thing that is doing better is the Mai rhythm motive that has cooperation with the Shanghai Sports Institute, and their home is specialized in making rhythm products, in addition to the rhythm platform, there are armrest rhythm motives, sofa rhythms, rhythm beds and so on.

Fall prevention in the elderly is not only a topic that the elderly themselves need to pay attention to, but also needs to be addressed by the family and society.

Always keep abreast of the elderly's physical condition: toilet conditions, movement tracks, sleep conditions, etc.

Avoid lying down for long periods of time: make sure you spot a fall in the event of a fall.

Avoid concealing falls: Failure to pay attention to the physical changes of the elderly in time can lead to more serious consequences.

Don't disrupt the lives of the elderly.

Don't invade their privacy.

Don't make them feel like they're in captivity.

It can rely on advanced technology and abundant activity monitoring data to gain multi-dimensional and multi-level insight into the elderly and form a complete risk assessment

Hazards of falls: 1. Physical: Cause muscle injury, such as head injury, fracture disease, and hospitalization in severe cases**. 2. Psychological aspect: because of the fear of falling again and not daring to go out, resulting in musculoskeletal stiffness, it is more suitable to fall.

It is easy to fall, it may be due to some physical diseases, and it is also possible that it is because you don't pay attention to the road under your feet when you walk.

It is easy to fall, it may be a variety of phenomena, it may be a disease, or it may be caused by a lack of calcium, so try to participate in more exercise and supplement calcium to alleviate it.

Always prone to falling, it may be that you don't pay attention to the road under your feet, and you can't lift your feet to walk, walk slowly, don't run.

If you are prone to falling, see if it is osteological, if so, you can only supplement iron, otherwise there is no way.

Body coordination, non-slip shoes, leg muscle exercises.

There are several main ways to guide the elderly to prevent falls:

1. Keep the environment appropriate, ensure that the ward or room is well lit, remove obstacles in the environment that are easy to cause the elderly to fall, and keep the ground clean and dry. Paste warning signs at the head of the bed, corridors, stairs, toilets and boiling water rooms, add non-slip mats and handrails, put frequently used things in a position where the elderly can reach them, regularly check seats, bedside guardrails, and wheelchairs, and strengthen patrols for the elderly at high risk of falling in the morning and evening and during meal times;

2. Life guidance, instruct the elderly to wear non-slip shoes and well-fitting clothes and pants, inform the elderly that it is not appropriate to bathe on an empty stomach or during a full meal, guide the elderly to bask in the sun properly, exercise properly, and use assistive equipment and appliances in a timely and correct manner. Such as using quadrangular canes, wheelchairs, etc.;

3. Medication guidance, do a detailed education on various drugs taken by the elderly, including the dose, time and method of each dose, adverse reactions and precautions for taking drugs, so as to reduce falls caused by adverse drug reactions. For the elderly who take antihypertensive, hypoglycemic, sedative, hypnotic and other drugs with potential risk of falling, it is necessary to pay attention to their actions, do a good job in preventive treatment, psychological counseling, and guide the elderly to overcome the reluctance to trouble others or disobey the old age, and seek help in time if they have difficulties.

1.If you can't remember the process of falling, it may be syncope or cerebrovascular accident, you should immediately call 120 for help, and you can't get up immediately.

2 If the elderly have severe headache, crooked mouth, unfavorable speech, weakness of hands and feet, etc., indicating that the elderly may have a stroke, and lifting up immediately may aggravate cerebral hemorrhage, and it is necessary to call 120 for help urgently.

3.If you can see the wound and there is bleeding, you should first use clothes, towels, handkerchiefs, etc. to stop the bleeding and bandage, and then immediately take the wound to the nearest hospital.

4.If the elderly fall and injure their arms or legs, radial fractures, ulna fractures, humeral shaft fractures, etc., may occur, the elderly will feel numbness in the hands and feet, pain in the hands and feet, and the fracture will be swollen and deformed, etc., and the elderly should be sent to the nearest hospital immediately.

5.If the elderly complain of pain in the lower back and cervical spine, abnormal movement or paresthesia in both legs, incontinence, etc., it indicates that the elderly have lumbar spine damage, and do not move the elderly or lift the elderly up.

If you have injured your spine, especially your cervical spine, blindly moving the elderly may cause damage to your spinal cord, which can take months to recover or paralyz.

For the consciousness after falling to the ground is not.

How to deal with the old man of Qing.

If you encounter an unconscious elderly person who has fallen, you should immediately call emergency **120 and send it to the hospital for rescue.

1.If the elderly person's breathing and heartbeat are stopped, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (including chest compressions, rescue breaths, etc.) should be started immediately.

2.If the elderly person has symptoms of vomiting after falling, tilt the elderly's head to one side and clean up the mouth and nose to keep breathing smooth and prevent the vomit from being inhaled into the airway and causing suffocation.

3.If you have convulsions after falling, immediately move to a flat soft ground or soft objects under your body to prevent bruises and abrasions. When moving, it is necessary to ensure that it is stable and lie flat as much as possible.

At the same time, you can place hard objects such as wallets between your upper and lower teeth to prevent biting your tongue and call for help in time. Do not use brute force to immobilize the convulsive limbs of the elderly to prevent secondary injury.

Falls can generally be prevented by improving the environment and increasing physical activity.

It is necessary to keep the light sufficient, the passage is unobstructed, the floor should not be wet, the furnishings should be fixed, and the daily items should be placed in a place that is easy to reach, and try to avoid bending down to pick up objects.

The wheels of the bed and the head of the bed should be fixed to avoid moving, and the hand shaker at the foot of the bed should be returned to the position in time after use, and the dinner board should not be placed at the end of the bed to avoid tripping others. Exercises that strengthen physical function can increase musculoskeletal flexibility and endurance.

Osteoporosis patients, due to the special bone structure, after falling and injury, are prone to fractures, resulting in serious complications and adverse consequences, so prevention in daily life is particularly important, on the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen muscle coordination through appropriate physical exercise, so on the other hand, we must pay attention to the protection in life, such as living space, can not have half a foot of things, to prevent the slipping of the floor, wear shoes that fit the foot, non-slip shoes.

To protect the joints, you can wear knee pads or elbow pads, which can reduce injuries in the event of a fall.

If there is local swelling and pain after a fall, you can use acupuncture or a wet towel to apply a cold compress, which can promote capillary constriction and reduce swelling and pain.

Try not to use hot compresses or massages too early, otherwise the symptoms will be aggravated, and you should go to the hospital for a check-up if necessary.

Abstract: Unlike healthy people, patients have some or some physical or psychological diseases, the peace and tranquility of the individual's normal state are disrupted, the ability to protect oneself is weakened or disappears, and the need for help from others. Nursing staff should conscientiously perform their duties, actively analyze the relevant factors of patients' possible falls, and provide appropriate and effective measures from all aspects to protect patients from falls.