Out of 1,527 emergency department patients ages 65 and older who suffered a head trauma associated with a ground-level fall, only about 60 percent of them followed up with their primary care physician ...

Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries in the United States for adults ages 65 and older. With 1 in 4 older adults falling annually, 27,000 deaths, 8 million emergency ...

BENTON, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HD Nursing, the leading patient safety solution that combines predictive analytics with individualized fall and pressure injury prevention, underscores the critical need ...

Correspondence to Dr Juliana S Oliveira, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2050, Australia; juliana.oliveira{at}sydney.edu.au Intervention Intervention ...

Apple is updating the built-in Health app on the iPhone with new features in iOS 15. The Health app uses a new metric called Walking Steadiness to give users a risk of falling assessment before a fall ...

When Irene Hobbs saw a flyer hanging at the Highland Senior Center promoting an upcoming fall risk assessment screening event, it came at the right time. Two weeks earlier, the 78-year-old fell in her ...

Falls and their subsequent outcomes are serious health threats for older adults. An estimated one-third of all people age 65 years and over who live at home fall each year; over one-half to two-thirds ...