Figure 1

Proposed Relationship between the FALLS and CONNECT Interventions. The FALLS intervention is expected to provide nursing home staff members with the content needed to know what fall reduction assessments and interventions to use for residents at risk for falling. Increased use of these fall reduction assessments and interventions are expected, in turn, to reduce the fall rates and probability of recurrent falls among nursing home residents. The CONNECT intervention, on the other hand, is expected to directly reduce the fall rates as well as increase the staff's use of the fall reduction assessment and interventions, thus having a greater impact of fall reduction than the FALLS intervention alone.