Health Promotion Board-Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community.
- Author:
Thilagaratnam SHYAMALA
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;
Sweet Fun WONG
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;
Akila ANDIAPPAN
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;
Kah Guan Au EONG
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;
Anu Birla BAKSHI
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;
Debbie BOEY
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;
Tsung Wei CHONG
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;
Hui Ping ENG
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;
Noor Hafizah ISMAIL
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;
Tang Ching LAU
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;
Wei-Yen LIM
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;
Hsin Wei Wendy LIM
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;
Lydia SEONG
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;
Wei Chin WONG
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;
Kai Zhen YAP
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;
Sri YUDAH
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Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Accidental Falls; prevention & control; Aged; Environment; Evidence-Based Medicine; Geriatrics; standards; Health Promotion; methods; Housing; Humans; Incidence; Middle Aged; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Risk Assessment; methods; Singapore; Social Class
- From:Singapore medical journal 2015;56(5):298-quiz 301
- CountrySingapore
- Language:English
- Abstract: The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community to provide health professionals in Singapore with recommendations for evidence-based assessments and interventions for falls prevention. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary of the key recommendations from the HPB-MOH CPG on Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community for the information of SMJ readers. The chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Health Promotion Board website: http://www.hpb.gov. sg/cpg-falls-prevention. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
