tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20352591.post1914512749057421942..comments2022-03-15T05:51:40.074-04:00Comments on LIFE IN THE END ZONE: Falling Down on the JobMuriel Gillickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13001304171183760292noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20352591.post-55668370797855945922017-05-17T15:06:49.420-04:002017-05-17T15:06:49.420-04:00Thanks for posting this. Your insight that, despi...Thanks for posting this. Your insight that, despite all the attention, the techniques, protocols and training still not getting to the heart of patient falls. I am not a clinician, but a family caregiver and for my money, the issue is that the equipment used to help patients with mobility and self-care for activities such as self-toileting DO NOT support FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE or SELF-CARE. Rather than wait for staff to assist, many patients and families visiting will initiate unsafe activity using equipment with substandard design. I believe that a call for optimizing the functional/self-care level during an in-patient visit also spills over to the post-acute caregivng experience. Yet clinicians tend to be dismissive of equipment as an actionable input for treating their patients, perhaps because they see "for-profit" companies ready to take advantage in a manner similar to pharmaceutical companies. They would rather keep care planning within the frame of their own skill set rather than demand better equipment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08162056251735236969noreply@blogger.com