When Falls Are Regulated But Function Is Not: How Measurement Incentives Undermine Post-Acute Care
Abstract
In postacute care, we have built a quality architecture that treats falls as actionable events and functional decline as expected aging. The resulting safety-without-recovery trade-off is not a clinical failure, but a predictable product of regulatory design.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
Healthcare Quality and Management
Balance
Gait
and Falls Prevention
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Forefront Group
- Publication date
- 4 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset