Balance and Prevention of fall among Elderly

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com the subjects activity level (sedentary vs. active), there was a strong direct correlation between the activity level and the Berg Balance Score (r = 0.76, p <0.001). Moreover, there was a strong direct correlation between the subject’s ambulatory status and the Berg Balance Score (r = 0.78, p <0.001). Results showed, the ADDS revealed only 200 elderly subjects had dizziness out of the 600 elderly subjects participated in this study and the individual number of each type of dizziness were as follows: Benign Paroxysmal Positional vertigo (BPPV) 99 [16.5%], Unilateral Vestibular Hypo-function (UVH) 44 [7.3%], Cervico-genic Dizziness (CGD) 26 [4.3%] and Central Mediated Problem (CM) 31 [5.2%]. In addition, the results proved that the ADDS strongly correlated with the “true-positive” and “true-negative” results (r = 0.95, p < 0.05). A stepwise linear regression was conducted and the results indicated that ADDS was a significant predictor of “true-positive” and “true-negative” results (R2 = 0.90, p < 0.05).