Falls are the leading cause of preventable injury, and while many strategies have been developed to try to stop them and their resultant injuries, they remain a persistent problem. Research by Brigham and Women's Hospital ...
Nov 17, 2020
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Preventing falls in older age could be as fun as dancing them away, new research shows.
Oct 1, 2020
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Active older veterans fall more often than their more sedentary peers who never served in the armed forces, but they're less likely to injure themselves when they do, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Apr 14, 2020
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Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital bed, allowed to get up only to use a bedside commode. ...
Oct 22, 2019
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The No. 1 cause of traumatic injury and death in the state of Virginia might surprise you.
Sep 23, 2019
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Older adults who get a hearing aid for a newly diagnosed hearing loss have a lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia, depression or anxiety for the first time over the next three years, and a lower risk of suffering fall-related ...
Sep 5, 2019
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For older adults, fainting and falls are serious health concerns. They can lead to injury, hospitalization, and other severe consequences. Having certain chronic conditions, as well as taking certain medications, can raise ...
Jul 27, 2019
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Adults who take several prescription medications are more likely to experience serious falls, say Yale researchers and their co-authors in a new study. This heightened risk can affect middle-aged individuals—a population ...
Jul 22, 2019
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Kidney disease causes middle-aged people to be as susceptible to falling as older adults, say researchers from Ball State University.
Jun 28, 2019
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An in-home exercise program reduced subsequent falls in high-risk seniors by 36 per cent, according the results of a 12-month clinical trial published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Jun 4, 2019
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