TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - An exploratory survey of older women's post-fall decisions
JO  - Journal of applied gerontology
A1  - Bergeron, Caroline D.
A1  - Friedman, Daniela B.
A1  - Spencer, S. Melinda
A1  - Miller, Susan C.
A1  - Hilfinger Messias, DeAnne K.
A1  - McKeever, Robert
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This research examined factors influencing older women's post-fall decision making. We surveyed 130 independent older women from continuing care retirement communities and non-institutional homes. We categorized women's post-fall decisions as medical, corrective, and social decisions, and examined the associations between post-fall decision categories, decisional conflict, number of post-fall changes, self-rated health, frequency of falls, severity of falls, health literacy, awareness and openness to long-term care institutional options, and demographics. Older women experienced greater decisional conflict when making medical decisions versus social ( p =.012) and corrective ( p =.047) decisions. Significant predictors of post-fall decisional conflict were awareness of institutional care options ( p =.001) and health literacy ( p =.001). Future educational interventions should address knowledge deficits and provide resources to enhance collaborative efforts to lower women's post-fall decisional conflict and increase satisfaction in the decisions they make after a fall.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0733-4648
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0733464816653361
ID  - ref1
ER  -