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Orthostatic hypotension: The often missed answer to the question of why a nursing home resident fell

Unfortunately, it's a fact pattern that those of us who prosecute nursing home neglect cases hear all too often.  It goes like this.  "My mother got out of a chair and took two steps and collapsed.  She broke her hip.  The nursing home said people like my mother fall a lot and there's nothing they can do to prevent the falls.  After all, they don't want to restrain mom to a bed."

Full post as published by Michael Carter’s bLAWg on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).