Risk Factors for Falls, Falls With Injury, and Falls With Fracture Among Older Men With or at Risk of HIV Infection

Prevalence of Risk Factors for Falls Among the Elderly Receiving Care at Home

Objectives Elderly people are at the highest risk for falling. In order to design and implement effective interventions and reduce the incidence of falling and its resulting injuries, the relative importance of each risk factor should be determined. This study aimed to determine how frequently different factors contribute to falls among the elderly served by one home health agency in Tehran.  ...

Risk Factors for Falls among Older People: a Population-based Case-Control Study

Introduction: Falling is one of the most common problems of the elderly people with a multi factorial nature and frequent cases. This study aimed to determine the risk factors of falls in old people covered by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.   Methods: This retrospective case-control study was conducted on 15,600 elderly participants. Data were extracted from Sina Electronic Health Re...

Falls and postural control in older adults with cataracts

Background: There is increasing evidence that visual impairment contribute to falling. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of vision impairment of old adult patients with cataract on the occurrence of falls and postural control. Methods:According to the results of screening ophthalmic examination, 48 cataract patients (mean±SD aged 68.5 ± 6.08 yrs.) and 50 individuals withou...

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Older Californians at risk for avoidable falls.

more than once (Exhibit 1). The rates are significantly higher for those ages 85 or older—21.3% reported multiple falls. Subgroups of older adults with even higher Who Falls? Older adults who fall more than once are at high risk of future falls. In 2007, 14.5% of Californians age 65 or older fell to the ground ore than a half million older Californians (565,000) fell more than once in 2007— abo...