Haus und Freizeit - bfu
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Regarding the adult age group, no prevention<br />
opportunities for risk factors with a high accident<br />
relevance could be fo<strong>und</strong> in the literature. Fall prevention<br />
activities for adults should include both<br />
behavioral prevention components as well as conditional<br />
prevention components (Table 4). It is true<br />
that no prevention opportunities could be fo<strong>und</strong> in<br />
the literature on the category «Health and medical<br />
factors». However, it can be assumed that certain<br />
activity-enhancing measures in the sense of sporting<br />
activities, have both a positive effect on agerelated<br />
changes in the main motor skills as well as<br />
the perceptive faculties and contribute to a general<br />
improvement in the state of health.<br />
Training the main motor skills (coordinative and<br />
conditional abilities and skills) is the focal point of<br />
fall prevention for senior citizens living independently<br />
(Table 5). Training aims to improve<br />
«dynamic and static postural control». Further<br />
recommended and behaviour-based preventive<br />
approaches relate to the senses/perception, medical<br />
factors as well as medication. Recommended<br />
preventive options that can be allocated to situational<br />
prevention include private and public<br />
infrastructures as well as (safety) products. However,<br />
infrastructural approaches to prevention in the<br />
private sector can only be considered recommended<br />
if senior citizens already have a history of falls<br />
and the infrastructural possibilities are combined<br />
with others, such as, for example, training to improve<br />
dynamic and static postural control (multiple<br />
forms of intervention). Preventive options relating<br />
to private infrastructure are only monofactorial in<br />
character, i.e. they represent a single measure, and<br />
are only recommended with reservations. Therefore,<br />
comparative forms of situation-based preventive<br />
intervention, should always be planned and<br />
implemented in combination or in addition to behavioral<br />
preventive measures.<br />
Table 4<br />
Recommended prevention possibilities for falls among adults<br />
Risk factor<br />
Prevention possibility<br />
Public infrastructure<br />
(e.g. roads, paths, public amenities)<br />
Speedy and timely snow removal<br />
Climatic conditions<br />
Use of gritting materials such as<br />
sand or grit<br />
Private infrastructure<br />
(own home, e.g. apartment, house, garden)<br />
Absence of anti-slip elements Installation of anti-slip materials<br />
(bathtubs, showers, wet cells etc.)<br />
<strong>bfu</strong>-Sicherheitsdossier Nr. 09 Kurzfassung / Version abrégée / Riassunto / Condensed Version 75