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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero. The chances of dying in the year after a fall is quite high for seniors. [/quote]

Hard disagree. The calculus does not have to be reduce risk of death.[/quote]

I didn't say risk of death is the full "calculus."

Personally, I think [b]any individual who is not suffering cognitive decline gets to decide where and how they want to live[/b]; they should have full agency. But an "acceptable" number of falls? That is going to be none; you need to do everything you possibly can to mitigate falls. There's no "acceptable" number of falls. [/quote]

OP here. So how do I do that? Mitigate falls? I believe that everything to be done to the house and his immediate environment to make things safer has been done. He does not want to remain in bed all day so a "walk" to his lift chair in the morning is needed and then a return to bed at night. He REFUSES to use a wheelchair or scooter (a wheelchair is readily available to him now). Yet, he continues to fall. His legs just give out. It is a physical thing. His heart is strong.

And PP stated it clearly. My father is 100% cognitively sharp. He constantly makes his wishes known that he will not leave the house. Yet, he falls often and needs EMS to get him back up off the floor as his wife is unable to lift him herself.

I live a plane distance away and am so frustrated.[/quote]

You tell him he can choose between a full time caregiver living in the home or a move to skilled nursing facility.  He may be lucid but that doesn't not mean he is capable of making reasonable choices on his own.  [/quote]

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