Reducing serious fall-related injuries: an interview with NEJM STRIDE Study author Tom Gill

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Sep 17, 2020 · 49m

Every year, about a third of older adults fall. About one in five of those falls result in moderate to severe injury. What can we do to help not only prevent those falls but also the complications of them? On todays podcast, we talk to Tom Gill, one of the authors of the recent Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) study published in the NEJM. The STRIDE study was huge, 5,451 patients in 86 primary care clinics from 10 different health care systems. Individuals assigned to the interventions worked with a "falls care manager" whose goal was to help identify…