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Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and in people 50 and over at higher risk

  • NICE guideline
  • Reference number: NG249
  • Published:  29 April 2025
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  1. Implementation support
  2. Resource impact
  3. Summary versions
  4. Audit and service improvement
  5. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools to help you put the guidance into practice.

Implementation support

  • National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) resource repository

  • Preventing falls in hospital: FallSafe/CareFall

  • Falls Management Exercise (FaME) Implementation Toolkit

  • Otago exercise programme

  • Action Falls Toolkit

  • Homefast OT home assessment tool

Resource impact

  • Resource impact summary report

  • Resource impact template (Excel 979 KB)

    Published:
    29 April 2025

Summary versions

  • Visual summary on falls in older people: assessing risk and prevention (PDF 132 KB)

    Published:
    29 April 2025

Audit and service improvement

  • Baseline assessment tool (Excel 47 KB)

    Published:
    29 April 2025

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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