Preventing falls in the Geriatric community

Obviously there are patient related factors and health conditions that cause or significantly contribute to falls or put patients at risk of falling. 
 

I have a feeling most of us would tell you that your assumption in #4 of resources being adequate is incorrect. 
 

Most of what I have seen on the ground involves this: We know patients are at risk of falling, we don't want them to and know it is bad for them, we are told it is our fault if people who fall....fall, and we are told to not let them fall. Everything beyond that is a mishmash of interventions we are told to do in hopes of not having them fall without using up any additional resources to actually prevent it. 

I will leave that to someone currently working in the ED, I've been out of there for a few years. I can't say there were a ton of people falling down during my time there (many years) and many are treated as higher fall risk due to altered sensorium, altered mobility (either chronically or acutely), weakness (either chronic or acute), medications they have received,  etc.