The proposed project will design,
implement, and evaluate an intervention program to prevent
injurious falls in assisted living facilities. The project involves
four major activities: (1) Adapting a multifaceted, evidence-based
falls prevention program to a protocol tailored to the assisted
living environment; (2) implementing the pilot protocol and
collecting clinical and process data pre- and post-intervention;
(3) evaluating the results of the intervention; and (4)widely
disseminating the protocol (revised as needed based on the
evaluation), training materials, and research findings. The project
design is a multi-component falls intervention program that will
include medication review, resident assessment, environmental
modification, and exercise. Its goal will be to reduce risk factors
for falls, as well as fall and fracture rates, among residents of
assisted living facilities. The project will adapt existing
evidence-based falls prevention interventions to the assisted
living setting, and collect data to track the progress and impact
of the intervention program. Data collection for the falls
intervention project will be approved by the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Institute (RTI)
International Institutional Review Boards. It will be conducted in
accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and with the Protection of Human Research
Subjects regulations, 45 CFR part 46. In addition, the identifiable
data collected in this study about provider organizations and
individuals will only be used for the above-statted purposes and
will be kept confidential.
US Code:
9 USC
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