“Concerns about falling are highly prevalent in older adults, affecting nearly one in two people by age 86,” said the study’s senior author, Professor Kim Delbaere, from the Falls, Balance ...

This new device could be very important for older adults and people who are in physical therapy after an injury. Regular use ...

Personalised home hazard assessments and interventions will help to prevent older and at-risk people from suffering from falls, according to new NICE guideline ...

A team of Butler University students used a Moneyball-like analysis of state Medicaid data to identify falls by seniors as a ...

Table 1 presents a summary of risk factors for falls identified from studies undertaken in people with cognitive impairment and dementia. In presenting this information, we have categorized risk ...

Falls are often responsible for sending older adults to the emergency room. In Davis County in 2022, unintentional injuries ...

Artificial intelligence sensors that can send an alert if a vulnerable person has fallen at home or missed a meal are to form a major part of the plan for social care, Wes Streeting will suggest when ...

Alert pointsman and station master rescued an elderly man from fall from a moving train in Surathkal railway station on Thursday. Seeing an elderly man getting into the moving Mangaluru Junction ...

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to: M M Gardner, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of ...