Resources for hospitals and aged care facilities - Stay On Your Feet

National falls prevention guidelines

In response to the increasing incidence of falls and falls related injury, the Australian Health Ministers Conference first developed a national falls prevention plan for older people in 2004. In 2009, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare developed three separate falls prevention guidelines to address the main care settings of hospitals, residential aged care facilities and the community.

National falls prevention guidelines for Australian hospitals Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals, 2009 Guidebook for Australian Hospitals, 2009 (summary) Implementation Guide for Australian Hospitals and Residential Aged Care Facilities, 2009 Hospital falls fact sheets for patients, carers, medical staff, support staff and health managers , 2009

National falls prevention guidelines for Australian residential aged care facilities Best Practice Guidelines for Residential Aged Care Facilities, 2009 (PDF, 2.8MB) Guidebook for Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities, 2009 (PDF, 945KB) Implementation Guide for Australian Hospitals and Residential Aged Care Facilities, 2009 Residential Aged Care Facility falls fact sheets for support staff, nurses, health managers, doctors, allied health professionals and residents, 2009

Stay On Your Feet® resources

• Falls management and prevention referral checklist - designed for use with any client living in the community who has had a fall
• Falls prevention in action: case studies for hospital, residential aged care facilities and community settings
• Stay On Your Feet® image library - contains images relating to falls in a hospital and falls in a residential aged care facility

Additional resources

• Neuroscience Research Australia - information on falls and balance