Interventions to Prevent Falls in Older Adults: An Updated Systematic Review. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2010. 5. Gillespie LD, Robertson MC, Gillespie WJ, et al. Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community. Cochrane Database Syst...
Selective prescribing of statins and the risk of mortality, hospitalizations, and falls in aged care servicesStatinsFallsHospitalizationMortalityLong-term careBACKGROUND: Compared to randomized controlled trials, nonexperimental studies often report larger survival benefits but higher rates of adverse events ...
Fall prevention interventions in primary care to reduce fractures and falls in people aged 70 years and over: the PreFIT three-arm cluster RCT. Health Technol Assess. 2021;25(34):1-114. doi:10.3310/hta25340PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 19. Bhasin S, Gill TM,...
The incidence, mortality, and DALY rates of falls for people aged 80 years and older were significantly higher than those in the other age groups, except for incidence rate, which was non-significantly different between the age 75–79 years group and the oldest age group. Large variations in...
However, a high-contact program would be harder to implement in routine care due to the limited resources of health systems internationally. Thus, we aimed to develop a program which is intense enough to be effective yet inexpensive enough to be widely implemented if shown to be effective. The...
Falls are one of the most common health problems among older people and pose a major economic burden on health care systems. Exercise is an accepted stand-alone fall prevention strategy particularly if it is balance training or regular participation in Tai chi. Dance shares the ‘holistic’ appro...
At least 30% of adults aged over 65 years experience a fall every year, peaking up to 50% in adults over 80 years of age. Furthermore, falls have long-term sequelae in more than half of older adults [3]. Due to its high prevalence and deleterious effects, falls are a primary health...
aged care psychiatry; falls Objectives:To evaluate the predictive value of the Aged Care Psychiatry Unit (ACPU) Falls Screen and to describe the outcomes associated with falls in an acute aged care psychiatry unit. Methods:The development of the ACPU Falls Screen for use in an acute aged care...
While CVD did not predict incident falls, it increased the risk of mortality in the three-year follow up with advancing age. This may be informative for the provision of care pathways for older adults attending the ED due to a fall.
Eligibility Criteria All types of RCTs (eg, cluster, crossover) examining fall-prevention interventions (whether single or multifactorial) for adults aged 65 years or older in all settings (eg, community, acute care) were included. Potential comparators were usual care, other fall-prevention interv...