Nursing home falls can cause serious injuries, including fractures, head injuries and back injuries. Falls can lead to a steep and swift decline in overall health that ends in death.

Falls in nursing homes can be prevented by:

• Ensuring that assessments are made to identify and address risk factors and treat underlying medical conditions


• Ensuring that modifications are made to improve mobility and safety for example, grab bars, lowering bed heights and installing handrails.


• Provide patients with hip pads to reduce the risk of hip fracture if a fall occurs.

Nursing homes will typically try to explain the fall away by blaming the patient. If he fell while getting to the bathroom, they will say he failed to use the call light or to wait for assistance. However, if the equipment was not working or if such calls routinely went unanswered because of understaffing or for some other reason that does not absolve the home.

If they claim the staff warned the person about not getting up alone that does not take away the home's duty to have adequate safety devices. And if the resident has Alzheimer's or other mental lapses, giving him warning instructions that he cannot remember will not be sufficient to satisfy the facilities duty of care.

 Although "accidents happen," and a nursing home cannot prevent every fall, it does have the legal and moral duty to take all reasonable actions to prevent them from happening, and will be liable for failing to do so.

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