As well as making recommendations on hazards in a person’s home, the updated guidance published today also covers residential care homes, hospitals and other healthcare settings in the community, for ...

Out of 1,527 emergency department patients ages 65 and older who suffered a head trauma associated with a ground-level fall, only about 60 percent of them followed up with their primary care physician ...

Falls and their subsequent outcomes are serious health threats for older adults. An estimated one-third of all people age 65 years and over who live at home fall each year; over one-half to two-thirds ...

Patients' risk of falling in the next 12 months could be predicted from their NHS data using a newly developed calculator. eFalls is a falls prediction model which uses routinely available primary ...

This article describes the development of an integrated falls strategy within Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust. It outlines the setting up of a group to implement the recommendations of the ...

To identify relevant systematic reviews, we did a comprehensive search of the literature (i.e., MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, AgeLine and The Cochrane Library) for articles published between Jan. 1, 2005 ...

Falls among seniors are a major global health concern, ranking as the second leading cause of mortality worldwide, according to the World Health Organization's 2021 report. The staggering statistics ...

Proposed federal legislation that would allow Medicare beneficiaries to receive a no-cost falls risk assessment from a physical or occupational therapist as part of their annual wellness visit is a ...

NICE has rubberstamped guidance aimed at reducing the number of falls among older people which GPs had previously warned may be difficult to implement. Since the consultation on draft falls guidelines ...

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine and collaborators explored this issue by investigating the rate of follow-up by older adults who sustain a fall-related head ...