Annual Costs and Nursing Care Interventions to Prevent Falls Over 1 Year in a Long Term Care Facility

Evidence shows the use of interventions to prevent falls are costly to healthcare facilities. Using a sample of older adult patients who fell at least once during the intervention year of a three-year cohort study in one long term care nursing facility, at a continuing care community providing skilled nursing and assisted living, we provide detailed evidence of the number and costs of durable medical equipment and number and type of non- durable medical nursing care interventions utilized to prevent subsequent falls. This level of description can aid healthcare facilities and administrators in their plans to reduce recurrent falls among older adults.