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Identify a quality improvement (Fall Prevention) opportunity in your (Geriatric) organization or practice. In a 1,250-1,500 word paper, describe the problem or issue and propose a quality improvement initiative based on evidence-based practice. Apply "The Road to Evidence-Based Practice" process, illustrated in Chapter 4 of your textbook, to create your proposal.

Include the following:

Provide an overview of the problem and the setting in which the problem or issue occurs.
Explain why a quality improvement initiative is needed in this area and the expected outcome.
Discuss how the results of previous research demonstrate support for the quality improvement initiative and its projected outcomes. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years, not included in the course materials or textbook, that establish evidence in support of the quality improvement proposed.
Discuss steps necessary to implement the quality improvement initiative. Provide evidence and rationale to support your answer.
Explain how the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated to determine whether there was improvement.
Support your explanation by identifying the variables, hypothesis test, and statistical test that you would need to prove that the quality improvement initiative succeeded.

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Shreyashi · Accepted Answer

Running Head: FALL PREVENTION IN GERIATRICS. 		                                   	1
FALL PREVENTION IN GERIATRICS.					                       	5
FALL PREVENTION IN GERIATRICS.
Table of Contents
Fall Prevention:	3
Reasons for Fall:	3
Balancing problems:	3
Poor Vision:	3
Blood Pressure level:	4
Brief loss of Consciousness:	4
Consequences of Fall:	4
Reasons to Improve Fall Prevention:	4
How Valid and Urgent are the Reasons:	5
Ways to Improve Fall Prevention:	5
Modification of home environment:	6
Regular eyesight check:	6
Regular exercise:	6
Evaluate Quality Improvement Initiative to Determine Improvement:	6
References	8
Fall Prevention:
Geriatrics are related to the people who are elder in terms of age. This branch is specifically related to their healthcare system. Now, as the name suggests already, fall prevention is an issue that takes place when an older person accidentally falls down. Falling down accidentally is very common in older person and have severe consequences. Fall prevention is thus an issue that is taken care of by the department of Geriatrics that mainly focusses on preventing accidental falls by implementing various methods. Injuries caused due to accidental falls are one of the most serious medical problems that takes place among older people. Some statistics, as mentioned by Ren and Peng, (2019) even show that nearly one third of the total people who are older in age, accidentally fall down because of some reasons at least one time in a year, while half of that one third older people fall more than one time in a year.
Reasons for Fall:
Every action has a cause. Falling accidentally when someone grows old also has its reasons. Some of the reasons are:
Balancing problems:
Maintaining balance while you grow old becomes very difficult. As you age, your system will grow weak as well. But the wait remains same in most of the older men and women. Hence handling a body with same weight but weaker strength becomes very difficult and hence some people loose balance and fall down.
Poor Vision:
Each part of our body or our organs have an expiration date. Once that expiration date ends, we will start noticing changes, especially the negative ones, in our body. Expiration date for each organ varies from person to person. But, mostly, people start losing their eyesight when they age. Cataracts and many other problems related to the eye start arising. In the way to lose their vision, they may not even see things that are bouncy or small, kept near you, Now imagine they are walking from one room to another and they did not see an object placed on the way. They are most likely to trip over it. 
Blood Pressure level:

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