24 Feb Geriatric population
This week you will be learning about safety in the geriatric population.
Did you know…
1 out of 4 older adults falls each year.
1 out of 5 falls ends with a serious injury (broken bones/head injury).
Over 800,00 patients are hospitalized per year for a fall related injury.
In 2015, $50 billion was spent of medical cost related to falls. (CDC, 2017).
CDC. (2017). Falls are serious and costly. CDC. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/falls/adultfalls.html Links to an external site.
Initial Post Instructions:
Please critically evaluate the subjective and objective information provided to you in the attached file below. The first part of the discussion board is to identify all pertinent positive and, negative information and list missing information.
Then create a differential diagnosis list with at least 3 possibly actual diagnosis based on your findings.
Second part is to create a plan utilizing clinical practice guidelines for the priority diagnosis.
Be sure to utilize template, in-text citations and provide full reference citation at the end of the discussion.
Please use this document to complete your case study: Unit 6 Discussion Case Study
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
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