Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT)

The Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) comprises three parts:

• Part 1 - falls risk status (can be used as a falls risk screen)
• Part 2 - risk factor checklist
• Part 3 - action plan.

The FRAT pack includes:

• validated risk assessment tool (FRAT) and guidelines
• multidisciplinary intervention strategies to reduce falls and falls injury
• staff development and training information and material
• a range of other material related to quality improvement, guidelines for prescribing medication, an incident form, environmental checklists, brochures, and additional resources and recommended reading etc.

The FRAT is a validated tool, so we do not recommend using the changes to Part 1. Validation of the FRAT resource was reported in September 2009: Four-item fall risk screening tool for subacute and residential aged care.

The cognitive status question in Part 1 refers to the Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS).

The Peninsula Health Falls Prevention Service developed the FRAT tool in 1999.

The complete FRAT Pack and Facilitators Guide is available from Peninsula Health Falls Prevention Service for a charge.

Please call (03) 9788 1260