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A Phenomenology Of Fall Prevention: Lived-Identity And Careful Practice In Community Outreach Care, James A. Shaw
A Phenomenology Of Fall Prevention: Lived-Identity And Careful Practice In Community Outreach Care, James A. Shaw
James B Shaw
The increasing number of injurious falls amongst older people living in the community is continuously portrayed as a major public health problem facing the Canadian health care system. As additional resources are allocated for community-based fall prevention programs, health service providers are increasingly expected to understand and enact fall prevention in effective and meaningful ways. The aim of this two-phase interpretive phenomenological study was to enhance understandings of the taken-for-granted meanings that characterize everyday practices of community-based fall prevention in order to foster more sensitive, tactful, and meaningful approaches to fall prevention with older people. In the first phase of …