Citation

Shyamala T, Wong SF, Andiappan A, Au Eong KG, Bakshi AB, Boey D, Chong TW, Eng HP, Ismail NH, Lau TC, Lim WY, Lim HW, Seong L, Wong WC, Yap KZ, Yudah S. Singapore Med. J. 2015; 56(5): 298-301.

Affiliation

Health Promotion Board, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, St Luke's Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Singapore Medical Association)

DOI

10.11622/smedj.2015073

PMID

26034320

PMCID

PMC4447933

Abstract

The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community to provide health professionals in Singapore with recommendations for evidence-based assessments and interventions for falls prevention. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary of the key recommendations from the HPB-MOH CPG on Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community for the information of SMJ readers. The chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Health Promotion Board website: http://www.hpb.gov. sg/cpg-falls-prevention. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.

Language: en