What Causes Most Falls in the Elderly?RukovetsOlga
(3) Medication review. (4) Exercise. (5) Home modifications. (6) To improve safety in the home. (7) To improve safety outside the home. Effective preventive strategies require better understanding of the causes of and risk factors for falling among elderly. 展开 关键词:...
long-term prospective studies have been performed on risk factors for falls in the general elderly population. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors predicting falls in a general elderly population after three and
- time to change our viewsAlthough falls in the elderly have been recognised as one of the 'giants of geriatrics' by geriatricians, they remain a problem area - possibly because there are many reasons for falling and it is often time consuming to elicit the specific causes in a patient. ...
Falls constitute a leading cause of injuries, hospitalization and deaths among the elderly. Older people fall more often for a variety of reasons: alterations in physiology and physical functioning, and the use (and misuse) of medications needed to manage their multiple conditions. Pharmacological ...
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Falls are a major threat to older people’s health and wellbeing. Approximately half of falls occur in outdoor environments but little is known about the circumstances in which they occur. We conducted a qualitative study to explore older people’s exper
426 IS HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATED WITH HAEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY AND FALLS IN THE ELDERLY? Objectives: Orthostatic (OH) and postprandial hypotension (PPH) have both been recognised as common causes of falls in the elderly, but the relationship between these types of haemodynamic instability (HI) and hyper...
This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with spontaneous falls among people aged ≥ 60 years in southern Iran. Methods The baseline data of 2,426 samples from the second stage of the first phase of a prospective cohort, the Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program, were ...
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