Abstract
Despite increased international concern about fall prevention throughout the past 20 years, only limited attention has been paid to the experiences and perspectives of health care providers who deliver fall prevention programs. The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to explore the meaning of the experience of enacting fall prevention, through individual semistructured interviews, among 6 members of an interprofessional geriatric outreach team in Ontario, Canada. Findings suggest that enacting careful practice was essential to the experience of enacting fall prevention, represented by four interrelated phenomenological themes: caring fully for older clients, carefully seeing older clients in their life contexts, enacting therapeutic relationships, and experiential learning in interprofessional teams. We discuss findings in relation to literature on emotional labor, leading to suggestions for the policy and practice of fall prevention.
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