Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 2

Recently, several community-dwelling older adult patients fell in their homes,resulting in hospital admission, surgery, and subsequent rehabilitation on your unit.Although frail, these patients had all been independent in their IADLs prior to thesefalls.Getting some of these patients discharged back to their homes was a slowprocess, and others were eventually placed in long-term care facilities. As a nurse onthe rehabilitation unit, you wonder if there is a benefit in initiating a program toprevent older community-dwelling patients from falls at home.Identify a specificquestion related to these patients in order to conduct a relevant and focused literaturesearch.What key words would you use in this search, and what sources would beappropriate to search?