This section highlights information on the risk factors for falls, and an assessment/ screening and referral care pathway which outlines the steps that health professionals should go through when assessing a client’s risk of falling. This also details the referral forms that are required for given areas within South Australia where available.

A list of health professionals is given with information on the services that are expected from them in assisting your client to reduce their risk of falling.

To assist in understanding what treatment and referrals a client or patient could receive two case studies are given one with a residential aged care and acute care focus, the other with a community focus.

Links to this information are:

• Referral/ care pathways
• Risk factors
• Roles of Health Professionals
• Community focused multi-factorial case study
• Hospital and RACF multi-factorial case study
• Stories with falls prevention messages