Why do healthy older adults fall? Behavioral and enviromental risks. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 11, 1-15. (1992).Reinsch S, MacRae P, Lachenbruch PA, Tobis JS. Why do healthy older adults fall? Behavioral and environmental risks. ...
BackgroundThe behaviour of hospitalized older adults can contribute to falls, a common adverse event during and after hospitalization.ObjectiveTo understand why older adults take risks that may lead to falls in the hospital setting and in the transition period following discharge home.DesignQualitative ...
Older adults perceived physical effort and pace as influencing difficulty where as challenging activities were not found to hinder older adults’ willingness to participate. Other challenges in performing activities were attributed to: skill level, environment conditions (e.g., pool versus ocean swimming...
While most of the above benefits of dating an older man fall beneath the “he’s just extra mature” category, it’s value mentioning additional perks of relationship a mature man. Now, I’m not saying each older man is prepared to settle down once more. At least then you realize instan...
and a concomitant shifting of boundaries. According to a November 2017Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 now believe that a man inviting a woman out for a drink “always” or “usually” constitutes sexual harassment. (Among older groups, much smaller percentages beli...
(Medical Xpress) -- Everyone knows the adage: "If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is." Why, then, do some people fall for scams and why are older folks especially prone to being duped? An answer, it seems, is because a specific area of the brain has deterior...
CBF, a critical property of basic brain physiology, has been shown to vary by sex in older adults, is linked to regional brain metabolism, is altered by cognitive activity and load, and is abnormal in various neuropsychiatric conditions (reviewed by Satterthwaite et al (2014)). Sex differences...
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