Falls Prevention Guide
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has released Preventing Falls and Harm From Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australia Hospitals, Residential Aged Care Facilities and Community Care 2009. We suggest you refer to these in the first instance.
VQC Falls toolkit
The VQC has developed a falls toolkit to help minimise the risk of falls and fall-related injury. The toolkit can be used as a reference point for any questions you may have. The following list contains selectable download documents.
Guidelines for acute, sub-acute and residential care settings (685kb, pdf)
Quick Reference Guide (256kb, pdf)
Research Supplement (559kb, pdf)
Education Supplement (509kb, pdf)
Tools Supplement (1260kb, pdf)
There are also some falls posters that may be of interest. The following list contains selectable download documents.
Falls don't just happen (558kb, pdf)
Identifiying falls risk factors (467kb, pdf)
Process model for minimising the risk of falls and fall related injuries (212kb, pdf)