Effective fall prevention efforts bridge the silos between clinical and community practice. A fall experienced by an older adult is rarely a straightforward event. Typically, falls are due to complex inter-related medical, behavioral, and environmental risk factors (1). For many older adults, medical risk factors such as medication reconciliation, treatment of atrial fibrillation, or physical t...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the design and development of a complex multifactorial falls prevention (MFFP) intervention for implementation and testing within the framework of a large UK-based falls prevention randomised controlled trial (RCT). METHODS A complex intervention was developed for inclusion within the Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT), a multicentre pragmatic RCT. PreFI...

OBJECTIVE To study the effectiveness of simply-performed balancing exercises in fall prevention. DESIGN Pre- and post-trial. SETTING University hospital from January 2009 to May 2010. PARTICIPANTS Elderly with falls in the previous year. INTERVENTION Simple balancing exercise was performed at home every day and was recorded in the booklet. MEASUREMENTS New falling events and a battery...

Whereas adults largely base their evaluations of others' actions on others' intentions, a host of research in developmental psychology suggests that younger children privilege outcome over intention, leading them to condemn accidental harm. To date, this question has been examined only with children capable of language production. In the current studies, we utilized a non-linguistic puppet show...

Consider a globally hyperbolic cosmological spacetime. Topologically, the spacetime is then a compact 3-manifold in cartesian product with an interval. Assuming that there is an expanding direction, is there any relation between the topology of the 3-manifold and the asymptotics? In fact, there is a result by Michael Anderson, where he obtains relations between the long-time evolution in Genera...

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BACKGROUND Falls are a common and debilitating health problem for older adults. Older adults are often treated and discharged home by emergency department (ED)-based providers with the hope they will receive falls prevention resources and referrals from their primary care provider. This descriptive study investigated falls prevention activities, including interactions with primary care provider...

Purpose: Childhood trauma is often caused by accidental or neglected falls. In this study, we aimed to evaluate demographic and clinical factors determine the incidence of falls from height in children under two years old.
 Materials Methods: The study included 106 forensic cases who presented emergency department after falling a one meter more as result an accident negligence between Janu...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to survey minor home help services provided by Swedish municipalities with the main purpose to prevent fall injuries. METHODS If minor home help services were presented on the homepage of a municipality, an initial telephone contact was taken. Thereafter a questionnaire was administered, including questions about target groups, aim with the services, tasks...

Abstract Background Accidental falls in elderly represent a major healthcare problem; they are cause of accidental death people above 65 years age. They result both physical and psychological trauma, where fear falling is consequence that leads to vicious cycle makes elderlies more isolated dependent, making them vulnerable falls. Falls multifactorial, dizziness common factor elderlies. Thus, m...