EVALUATION OF HOME ACCIDENTS AND FALL BEHAVIORS OF ELDERLY

WOS: 000391285800011Introduction: This study was conducted to evaluate home accidents sustained by the elderly in previous year by using the questionnaire develop by the researcher and also evaluate the fall behavior of the elderly using the "falls behavioral scale" included 175 elderly residents in the Ovacik district of Kirikkale province, Turkey. Materials and Method: The "Falls Behavioral Scale for the Elderly" was employed as the data collection tool. Data were analyzed using standard deviation, arithmetic mean, and the student's t-test to compare the two groups and analysis of variance to compare multiple groups. Results: More than half of the elderly (59.4%) sustained home accidents in the previous year, and elderly who sustained fall accidents (70.2%) and those who sustained accidents in the kitchen (31.7%) ranked in first place. The mean score of the elderly' fall behavior was 2.85 points on a four-point scale. The falls behavior of the elderly indicated significant differences in terms of the type and place of accidents (p