Objective The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials ...

Objective To investigate cost-effectiveness and costs of fall prevention exercise programmes for older adults. Design Systematic review. Data sources Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, National ...

The Article, published Online First in The Lancet, reveals that previous studies – generally based on interviews, incident reports, or artificial laboratory simulations – might have missed some of the ...

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 ...

Every second, someone somewhere in the United States takes a devastating fall, contributing to a massive $50 billion annual healthcare burden, a figure set to double by 2030 as the baby boomer ...