Falls in hospitalized elderly patients with mental illness factors and countermeasures.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Falls in hospitalized elderly patients with mental illness factors and countermeasures [Abstract] Objective To study falls in hospitalized elderly patients with mental illness related factors and preventive measures. Methods A retrospective survey methods, from January 1999 to December 2008 period, occurred in our hospital and the behavior of 32 elderly patients fall mental illness (excluding changes due to the fall because of theosophy) data for statistical analysis. Results 56.2% of patients fall in the night; 46.9% were due to get up or sit up and fall; 56.3% of the fall, and patients taking sedative drugs the probability of falling increased with age, while most of the elderly after a fall will have varying degrees of consequences. Conclusion of falls in hospitalized elderly patients with mental illness related factors, and thus develop appropriate preventive measures to reduce falls in hospitalized elderly patients with mental illness behavior place to improve the elderly’s quality of life in patients with mental illness. [Keywords:] mental illness; fall; factors; Strategy With the average life expectancy of our population, the increase in the elderly, elderly patients with mental illness has increased. Old people, tissues, organs, decline of physiological function of aging, facial features, limbs, dysfunctional, which directly affects elderly patients security, which falls in the elderly the most common and most serious problems. prevention of falls in hospitalized elderly patients is one of the topics to explore clinical nurses [1]. Therefore, the study falls in hospitalized elderly patients with mental illness related factors and prevention measures to avoid disputes, improve the hospitalized elderly quality of life of patients with mental disorders is important. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General information from January 1999 to December 2008, Qingpu District, Shanghai Mental Health Center hospital and the behavio