Falls and Fall Prevention

Falls and Fall-Prevention in Older Persons: Geriatrics Meets Spaceflight!

This paper provides a general overview of key physiological consequences of microgravity experienced during spaceflight and of important parallels and connections to the physiology of aging. Microgravity during spaceflight influences cardiovascular function, cerebral autoregulation, musculoskeletal, and sensorimotor system performance. A great deal of research has been carried out to understand...

Prevention of falls and fall-related injuries in older people.

As people get older, they may fall more often for a variety of reasons including problems with balance, poor vision, and dementia. About a third of community-dwelling people over 65 years old fall each year, and the incidence of falls, and fallrelated injuries, increases with age. Although less than 10% of falls in community-living older people result in a fracture, these are a significant sour...

Falls and fall prevention in community-dwelling older adults

Tuvemo Johnson, S. 2018. Falls and fall prevention in community-dwelling older adults. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1396. 64 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0156-3. Falls are the primary cause of injuries among older adults, and accidents that result from falls can lead to personal suffering and extensive soci...

Acute care patient falls: evaluation of a revised fall prevention program following comparative analysis of psychiatric and medical patient falls.

Eliminating falls and fall-associated injuries are priorities in health care. This study examined the impact of revised fall prevention interventions on psychiatric and medical patient falls. After policy revisions were well established, psychiatric falls diminished and medical falls increased. A contributing factor to the medical population finding was policy intervention noncompliance.

Epidemiology of falls and fall-related injuries