The statistics about falls in older adults are eye-opening. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s STEADI program make it clear thatfall prevention in aging adultsis critically important: One in four older adults reported a fall One out of five of these falls causes a serious...
DESCRIPTIVE statisticsLONGITUDINAL methodBackground: Benzodiazepines and z-drugs increase the fall risk in older adults. There is a lack of real-world data examining the association between falls and deprescribing medications. Objective: In a retrospective cohort study of older adults with chronic ...
In older adults, falls can be very serious. Studies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several other investigators have reported some very alarming facts: Falls are the # 1 reason for injury‑related visits to an emergency room, the # 1 cause of accidental...
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Maintenance of physical function, mobility, and independent living are important goals for older adults. However, concerns about falling (CaF) play a central role in the vicious cycle of CaF, inflammation, loss of muscle mass, and decreasing physical function ultimately resulting in negative health ...
Citations0 2 Medical News in Brief July 12, 2024 Emily Harris JAMA.2024;332(5):363. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.12235 FullText The prevalence of people aged 65 years or older with type 1 diabetes has risen globally over the past 30 years, from 400 older adults per 100 000 in 1990 to 514...
--- Some Sobering Statistics --- If you are 65 or older, you have a 1 in 4 chance of having an accidental fall this year. Images from the Ohio Department of Health Special Emphasis Report: Fall Injuries among Older Adults 2005-2014 ...
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Other predictors for falls in older adults, such as decreased cognition, depression, malnutrition and polypharmacy, were not identified among older cancer patients in the current study. However, there was some evidence of an effect of each that may have been too marginal to allow for inclusion in...
Approximately one third of subjects ≥65 year old and half of subjects ≥80 years old sustain a fall injury each year. We aimed to study the outcomes of fall from a height (FFH) among older adults. We hypothesized that in an elderly population, fal