4. Finkelstein E, Prabhu M, Chen H: Increased prevalence of falls among elderly individuals with mental health and substance abuse conditions. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2007, 15(7):611-619.Heslop K, Wynaden D, Bramanis K, Connolly C, Gee T, et al. (2012) Assessing falls risk in older...
Kinesis Health Technologies has developed an objective, quantitative method of screening for fall risk, frailty, and mobility impairment that is 15% to 27% more accurate than traditional methods.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of interest were recorded in a structured questionnaire. These included the Barthel Index, the Identification of Elderly Africans Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADEA-IADL) and Cognitive (IDEA-Cog) screens, the EURO-D depression scale and Confusion ...
In addition, while orbital stability measures (Floquet multipliers) applied to gait have been shown to distinguish between both elderly fallers and non-fallers as well as between young and old adults, local stability measures (λs) have been able to distinguish between young and old adults. ...
Inspection of agility and dynamic balance are two main indexes to achieve early identification of fall risk in the elderly [16] which can be used in addition to quantifying the body strength and mobility for evaluating the physiological capacity [15]. Through functional fitness performance, it can...
Assessing the Risk Factors of Fall among Admitted Patients Multi-Knowledge Electronic Comprehensive Journal For Education & Science Publications (MECSJ)Alaklabi, Ibrahim Saad Jalawi
falls riskpolicypracticebest practiceThe aim of this study was to quantify the extent of needlestick underreporting, to examine factors which may contribute to underreporting, and to optimise the relevant risk management strategy. An 11-item structured postal questionnaire was adapted from an existing ...
The gray wedges represent fire seasonality before fire regime change: W: winter, Sp: Spring, S: summer and F: fall/autumn. Red dashed lines inside wedges represent new fire regime seasonality after state change b The location of the fire regions used in this study (Olson 2001) with the ...
In addition, higher levels of perceived social support have been demonstrated to improve the functional status of people with stroke7 and reduce the fall risk of community-dwelling older adults8. Adequate perceived social support can also improve the social participation9, and in turn, may improve...
Respondents were asked in every survey wave whether they looked after or provided regular help to any sick, disabled, or elderly person inside or outside their household; the total hours per week spent caring, and to identify co-residents they helped whose relationship to them was derived using...