Emergency rooms, especially in South Florida, are increasingly busy with senior citizens coming in with a common problem: they're hurt, after falling at home.
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Experiencing a fall can be traumatic enough, but a new study showed that what happens afterward is equally challenging. In short, not everyone who is injured in a fall receives the care they need after taking a spill, or gets the tools to prevent another one.
Suboptimal follow-up, prevention in geriatric fall-related head trauma. Study explores follow-up with primary care physician, prevention strategies after emergency department visit