Patient Safety Tool: Home Fall Prevention Checklist From CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a free, downloadable home fall prevention checklist for older patients.

If your facility provides care for older adults, you can provide this checklist to them, in the form of an 8-page brochure, to help reduce the likelihood of a home fall after they are released from your care.

The checklist offers guidance for many areas of a home, including the following:

• Floors
• Stairs and steps
• Kitchen
• Bathrooms
• Bedrooms

Download the CDC's home falls prevention checklist (pdf) for distribution to your patients.

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