symptoms with some variant of a famous line attributed to Dorothy Thompson, 'After fifty, it's patch, patch, patch'. The astute and experienced physician recognizes the senior citizen's reference to the 'one horse shay falling apart' as a method for coping rather than a clue to the ...
2031 Lying and standing blood pressure and ECG for the falling patient INTRODUCTION. Many elderly patients admitted to hospital have presented following a fall. Causes for falls are often complex and multifactorial, but causes... C White,L Boyd,A Teo - 《Age & Ageing》 被引量: 0发表: 2024...
[...] public places as walkways and lift lobbies in some public housing estates ("PHEs"), which causes difficulties to frail elderly and mobility-handicapped persons, with some even falling and injuring themselves. legco.gov.hk 本人接獲投訴,指公共屋邨的行人通道和升降機大堂等公共地方欠缺扶手...
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Recent research on osteoporosis and fractures in the elderly suggests that preventing falls is just as important to managing osteoporosis as monitoring and improving one’s bone mineral density.32 Doctors are therefore advised to assess people with osteoporosis in order to ascertain the likelihood of ...
Difficulty falling asleep at night. Waking during the night. Waking earlier than desired. Still feeling tired after a night's sleep. Daytimefatigueor sleepiness. Irritability, depression, or anxiety. Poor concentration and focus. Being uncoordinated, an increase in errors or accidents. ...
In light of this, falls among the elderly may therefore be under-estimated in this study. Other unintentional injuries in Seychelles included electrocution, shark attacks, aircraft accidents, ship injuries, rock accidents, falling objects, lightning, asphyxiation, and injuries due to epileptic seizures...
These factors, along with some of the negative side effects of medications, increase the risk for pneumonia in the elderly. Once organisms enter the lungs, they usually settle in the air sacs and passages of the lung where they rapidly grow in number. This area of the lung then becomes ...
This usually occurs as a result of high impact collisions like motor vehicle accidents or falling from a significant height. Calcaneus Fracture or Broken Heel are generally quite severe and result in long term complications for the affected individual. Calcaneal fractures represent 2% of all fractures...
Once you eventually fall asleep, it’s difficult for your body and brain to stay asleep. You wake up frequently, having trouble falling asleep again. A common side effect after waking up is fatigue and also a constant feeling of tiredness that you carry all day. During the day, people li...