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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 adults, an early diagnosis tool is crucial to prevent...
Falls account for one of the most common and serious issues contributing to a disability, especially among elderly individuals. Tinetti et al. in 1988 defined a fall as an event that results in a person coming to rest on the ground or other lower-level unintentionally, which is not as a r...
Some of the important questions that remain to be answered are listed in Table 1. While certainly not exhaustive, the topics listed in Table 1 and discussed in this paper provide a beginning template for a research agenda for fall and injury prevention among elderly persons. 展开 ...
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 attention. Most of these accidents are suffered by ...
Furthermore, exercise has a major role to play in the prevention of falls and fall-related risk factors among older people. In addition, active older people who exercise are less likely to develop physical disability, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis. ...
The eight-week FPEP turned out to be significantly effective in enhancing muscle strength, ankle flexibility and balance, and in reducing depression, after intervention among community-dwelling elderly in Korea. IADLs, however, was not changed by the intervention. Further research with a larger ...
Prior research has indicated that fall prevention quality improvement (QI) strategies are multi-faceted and often require a case management approach.14 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) initiative15 was developed as a ...
Fall risk assessment is a powerful tool that aids in determining the risk of falls for a given individual in order to provide early diagnosis and treatment to reduce or prevent future falls. Traditionally, clinical fall risk assessments among older adults consist of questionnaires or functional asses...
13,14 Fall prevention must be taken into account in public health policies and elderly health programs.15 Regular training increases the strength of muscles, coordination and flexibility and reduces the falls.16 To the best of our knowledge, being the one of the first community-based case-...