Table 2 Summary of themes and sub-themes (Management of care recipients’ fall risk)
From: Understanding carers’ fall concern and their management of fall risk among older people at home
Example of related sentences/phrases | Codes | Sub-themes | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|
‘Maybe I don’t know everything that could be done, to prevent. That’s why I like to be around a lot more’ (C18) | Being around care recipient | Increase supervision | Fall prevention strategies used |
‘I do telephone. Checking on her most of the days. I visit maybe three times a week’ (C17) | Telephone to check on care recipient | Calling the care recipient | |
‘We really don’t go out much and leave each other. We do go shopping together, we prepare the meals together’ (C11) | Doing things together to reduce fall risk | Doing things together | |
‘We have got railings outside the house for the steps to prevent falling. In the house we had modifications to the shower’ (C4) | Installing handrails to prevent falls | Home modification | |
‘It happened so quickly. Out of the sudden she fell. It happened so quickly that you didn’t have time to support her’ (C2) | Fall is unexpected | Did not encounter such risk | Risk of preventing falls |
‘I don’t try to assist because I could be injured as well. You should just let them fall, if they are going to fall’ (C4) | Afraid of getting injured when helping | Aware of physical limitation | |
‘My daughter and some of the grandchildren, they help out at times. Especially with the yard and the bigger jobs’ (C8) | Help in manual activities by family members | Support from family | Support from family and friends |
‘We have friends who put up rails at front and back for us. With the steps, and they made the steps smaller’ (C15) | Home modifications by friends | Support from friends | |
‘It’s very tiring for me…we have the kids always promising to come in and help…and they got their own life’ (C10) | Lack of support | Lack of support | |
‘When he had his first operation, the nurse in the emergency… gave me a piece of paper with what to do if he falls over’ (C5) | Given brochure on fall prevention | Information on fall prevention | Support from healthcare professionals |
‘As part of the rehabilitation, there was physiotherapist instruction on what to do… to make sure you don’t fall’ (C6) | Physiotherapist advice in fall prevention | Support from allied healthcare professionals | |
‘We were advised by the hospital about how to break the fall…Anyway, these were only after the fall’ (C2) | Advice on fall prevention after fall | Received support only after the fall |