| Summary: | 碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 原住民健康研究所 === 94 === For elderly people in Taiwan, fall is one of the top three accidental causes of death. Along with aging of population, fall has already become important public health issue for elderly people.
A cross-sectional design and structural questionnaire was used for the study. We survey all the subject of elderly people who aged at or above 65 and living at Jhuosi county in Hualien. The purpose of the study is to explore prevalence of fall and recurrent falls in past one year, the circumstances of falling, and related risk factors.
The result reveals that among 403 elderly people of Jhuosi county, out of the 103 subjects experienced 224 times of fall. The prevalence of fall was 25.6%, the recurrent falls prevalence was 13.4% (54 subjects). Most of the fall events took place during daytime (91.1%) and outside (outside: 69.9%; inside: 30.1%). There was 46.6% of subjects fell dizzy before falling down. The significant fall related risk factors were eye disease amount, alcohol drinking status, physical exercise habit, Timed Up and Go Test (TUGT) and bedroom safety score. Furthermore, the significant recurrent falls related risk factors were vision status, knee joint disease and perceived health status.
The meaningful of this investigation is to discover alcohol drinking status and bedroom safety score are the most important risk factors of fall and recurrent fall. Therefore, we suggest that health professionals should plan with indigenous elder people for reduction of alcohol drinking and modification of house safety.
Key words: Jhuosi, fall, recurrent falls, risk factors
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