Older adults reported about 36 million falls in 2018. Although effective strategies are available to minimize fall risk, little is known about older adults' and healthcare providers' awareness of these strategies. This study describes and compares older adults' and healthcare providers' beliefs about...
Healthcare professionals could utilize our model to assess and screen the identified risk factors in the general population. This would enable them to take the necessary actions to prevent fall risks in older adults in Pakistan. Lack of physical activity and exercise increases the vulnerability to ...
With technological advancements in diagnostic imaging, smart sensing, and wearables, a multitude of heterogeneous sources or modalities are available to proactively monitor the health of the elderly. Due to the increasing risks of falls among older adult
Healthcare professionals should conduct a thorough medication review, including past patient history, age-related physical changes, drug–drug interactions, and AEs considered as risk factors for falls [61,62,63,64]. Optimized interventions to reduce the incidence of falls among older adults should ...
Ideally, any captured raw video data would not be seen first by any person (including any member of a person’s healthcare team) until necessary, e.g., data verification. Accordingly, perhaps the detection and obscuring of sensitive objects (e.g., people, letters) to uphold privacy prior ...
The slump in industrial profits in September was due to factors such as insufficient demand and a sharper decline in producer prices, and a significantly higher base of comparison since August, NBS statistician Wei Ning said. But recently unveiled policy measures will "foster a fa...
Personal care services such as haircuts were also allowed to operate with proper health and safety protocols. Stage three was the most relaxed. It permitted nearly all businesses to operate with health and safety protocols. There are three levels of governance in Ontario: provincial, regional, ...
Falls have a major impact on individual patients, their relatives, the healthcare system and related costs. Physical exercise programmes that include multiple categories of exercise effectively reduce the rate of falls and risk of falling among older adults. Methods This 12-month, assessor-blinded, ...
Article Open access 25 August 2023 Introduction Falls among elderly are a cause of major concern for health systems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO)1, around 646,000 mortal falls occur each year in the world, while 37.3 million falls are severe enough to require medical attenti...
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