Can volunteer companions prevent falls among inpatients?
Volunteers may play an important and cost-effective role in enhancing health care and can prevent falls in older hospital patients when they are present. Full implementation of this program would require the recruitment of adequate numbers of volunteers willing to sit with all patients considered at risk of falling in hospital. The challenge for future work in this area remains the sustainability of falls prevention strategies.
Patients with schizophrenia show deficient modulation of the P100 and N170 components by emotional and personal identity of faces and bodies, which may relate to deficient context processing.