The Fairfield Falls Intervention program - known as Fairfield FIT
Sydney South West Area Health Service
This project was entered in the 2007 NSW Health Awards, Making Prevention Everybody's Business category.
Contact: Wendy Jamieson
Abstract
Fairfield Ambulatory Care has developed "The Fairfield FIT" (Falls Intervention Team); a multidisciplinary, multifaceted falls prevention program. At risk clients are referred from the community and through screening non-admitted Fairfield Emergency Department (ED) patients with a history of fall. Patient intervention is planned and coordinated. In the 6 month period between October 2006 and March 2007, more than 100 clients were referred to the FIT program and received a variety of interventions. To date the results are very encouraging with a core group showing a 64% reduction in their falls.
The full entry document can be downloaded in the formats listed below:
The Fairfield Falls Intervention program - known as Fairfield FIT (66KB)
The Fairfield Falls Intervention program - known as Fairfield FIT (93KB)
Download the Presentation (629K) from the 2007 NSW Health Expo
