Documents Review about Elderly Peoples Fear of Falling

Abstract

Tomoko Matsunaga

I investigated fall prevention in a women’s learning society for M City to plan the spread of fall prevention classrooms for elderly people. Also, 10% of people said they had a fear of falling. From this investigation, I was surprised that people didn’t know about the fall prevention classroom even though some people were scared of falling. Therefore, to raise awareness, I performed a review of documents about elderly people’s fear of falling and examined the present conditions and problems. In Medical Online, there were 13 documents from until 1999 through 2016. CiNii had 36 documents, and Central medical journal had 40 documents. From these, I extracted 20 documents and examined them. It is said that people who have fallen before have a higher chance of falling again, but simple fear is not the only factor putting people at risk. Other factors include physical pain resulting from their fall, the cause of their previous fall, loss of independence, and the physiological fear of being a burden on other people. Previas experience with falling is not the only factor, the combination of body function and sense of fear is also a factor.

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