Falls in the elderly: case report
Keywords:
Primary Health Care, Elderly Population, FallsAbstract
The present paper represents a narrative of the experience of the authors - medical students and guiding professor in Public Health - regarding the patient S.O., female, bedridden for 10 years due to a fall. Falls in the elderly population are one of the main problems that lead to hospitalization, having consequences such as higher mortality and morbidity in old age, causing mobility restrictions, fractures, depression, loss of autonomy and independence, loss of life quality, and higher cost and overload of health systems. The Singular Therapeutic Project was created, from tools made available by SUS, with the intention of establishing proposals of personalized therapeutic conducts for an individual, a family, or a group, that result from the collective discussion of an interdisciplinary team, in a manner individualized to the case, and according to the identified problems and needs.
