A rational fall risk assessment comprises these factors, thereby providing an individual risk profile as a quantitative basis for treatment planning and evaluation.doi:10.1093/gerona/60.8.1000Martin RungeJ Gerontol A B...
Falls are frequent in the elderly and affect mortality, morbidity, loss of functional capacity and institutionalization. In the older patient the incidence of falls can sometimes be underestimated, even in the absence of a clear cognitive impairment, because it is often difficult to reconstruct the ...
Falls in the elderly are a major problem for today's society. If the elderly could get help immediately after the fall, the severity of the injury could be reduced. Also, it results in decreasing the rate of death and the medical cost. This paper presents a fall detection algorithm based...
Given the various causes of falls, prevention, and management must be multidimensional and interprofessional. The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is a multidisciplinary instrument used in the evaluation of older patients at risk of falling. In addition to the history and physical examination, a...
Falls are among the most common cause of decreased mobility and independence in older adults and rank as one of the most severe public health problems with frequent fatal consequences. In the present study, gait characteristics from 171 community-dwelling older adults were evaluated to determine thei...
The proposed fall detection system for the elderly is implemented through a body area sensor network using third-generation sensors. The evaluation results demonstrate the reasonable performance of the proposed fall detection prototype system in the tested scenarios. 展开 ...
Falls are a serious problem among older cancer patients. Geriatric screening and assessment data can identify patients at risk for a fall. A patient with risk factors associated with falls should undergo further evaluation and intervention to prevent potentially injurious fall incidents. ...
An evaluation of predictive risk factors for pressure ulcers is essential in development of a preventive strategy on admission to hospitals and/or nursing ... JM Michel,S Willebois,P Ribinik,... - 《Annals of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine》 被引量: 11发表: 2012年 Falls in elderly: ide...
Slow response, osteoporosis and vision loss threaten the health of the elderly. The fall of this problem is an important factor that threatens the health of the elderly. In order to reduce the damage caused by falls, this paper based on the human skeleton map for fall prediction. First ...
The Joint Commission (formerly known as JCAHO) mandates that hospitalized and nursing-home patients be assessed for fall risk, with periodic reevaluation, according to a standard assessment tool, e.g., the Morse Fall Scale, Tinetti test or St. Thomas’s Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly...