Reducing falls in dementia inpatients using vision-based technology (April 2022)

Summary

Falls have a significant negative impact on the health and well-being of people with dementia and increase service costs related to staff time, paramedic visits, and accident and emergency (A&E) admissions. The author of this study, published in the Journal of Patient Safety, examined whether a remote digital vision-based monitoring and management system had an impact on the prevention of falls.