INTRODUCTION: The falls are frequent on the old and, as they stay the great part of the time at the household, this would should be a safe place, become many times an environment of the great risk. OBJECTIVE: Identify the causes and consequence of falls in elderly at home old by gender and stage of ages. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The example constitute of 389 old in residence at the city of Chapecó, been 191 women, (49.10%) and 198 men (50.89%). For the collection of the data we did utilize an adapted questionnaire of Lojudice (14) and the mini exam mental (13). RESULTS: Was identify an average of 1.6 falls to the year (DP ± 0.97). An average of 1.57 (DP ± 1.02) for men and 1.63 (DP ± 0.91) for women. However, in the stages of ages, are the over of 80 years old that more did suffer falls, a average of 2.16 (DP ± 1.34) by year. The place of more occurrences of falls was in the bathroom (24.94%) follow of kitchen (18.25%). The majority related have suffered any type of injury (92.03%) been the most common, the hurts (46.52%), follow of fractures (29.05%) and the part bodily with more episode was on the ankle (19.79%) and knee (18.25%). CONCLUSION: Conclude that the occurrence of falls inside from the household constitute in a problem of public health, be in the number of injury and impact that reflect on the olds's health or in the necessity of either think strategies for warn this event in the household and its around.
Old; Accidental falls; Housing
