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2. Identify a clinical prevention intervention of fall and patient safety that has been implemented to promote health and wellness for the geriatric population with which you are familiar. Have these clinical prevention interventions been successful? Why or why not?
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Del Carmen Panini et al. (2017) found out that most elderly individuals use Psychoactive medications to reduce symptoms like pains as a result of various underlying illnesses. Minimizing and withdrawing the high use of these medications has a significant role in reducing the number of falls experienced by aged persons (Del Carmen Panini et al., 2017). Boyé et al. (2017) conducted a study with 612 older persons who came for fall injuries assistance in an emergency department for twelve months. The main intervention that was provided was minimizing the use of fall risk-increasing drugs such as psychoactive medications (Boyé et al., 2017) Seppala et al., (2018) also did a meta-analysis and review on PsycINFO, Medline
