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Falls, Injuries Due to Falls, and the Risk of Admission to a Nursing Home
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Among older people living in the community falls are a strong predictor of placement in a skilled-nursing facility; interventions that prevent falls and their sequelae may therefore delay or reduce the frequency of nursing home admissions.Abstract:
Background Falls warrant investigation as a risk factor for nursing home admission because falls are common and are associated with functional disability and because they may be preventable. Methods We conducted a prospective study of a probability sample of 1103 people over 71 years of age who were living in the community. Data on demographic and medical characteristics, use of health care, and cognitive, functional, psychological, and social functioning were obtained at base line and one year later during assessments in the participants' homes. The primary outcome studied was the number of days from the initial assessment to a first long-term admission to a skilled-nursing facility during three years of follow-up. Patients were assigned to four categories during follow-up: those who had no falls, those who had one fall without serious injury, those who had two or more falls without serious injury, and those who had at least one fall causing serious injury. Results A total of 133 participants (12.1 perce...read more
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Asymmetrical lower extremity power deficit as a risk factor for injurious falls in healthy older women.
Erja Portegijs,Sarianna Sipilä,Satu Pajala,Sarah E Lamb,Markku Alen,Jaakko Kaprio,Markku Kosekenvuo,T. Rantanen +7 more
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Virtual Environments in the diagnosis, prevention and intervention of age-related diseases
Giuseppe Riva,Albert Rizzo,Dario Alpini,Elena Barbieri,Laura Bertella,Roy C. Davies,Luciano Gamberini,Noomi Katz,Stefano Marchi,Laura Mendozzi,Enrico Molinari,Luigi Pugnetti,Patrice L. Weiss,S. Maria Nascente +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a group of world-wide VR and health-care researchers have decided to join their efforts in a multidisciplinary project named VETERAN - Virtual Environments in the diagnosis, prevention and intervention of age-related diseases.
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Relationship between the type of urinary incontinence and falls among frail elderly women in Japan.
Kensuke Takazawa,Kokichi Arisawa +1 more
TL;DR: Investigation of the relationship between type of urinary incontinence and risk of falls among elderly users of day-care services in a long-term care system suggests that mixed incontinent have independent associations with falls.
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Older adults' perceptions of clinical fall prevention programs: a qualitative study.
Rebecca Calhoun,Hendrika Meischke,Kristen Hammerback,Alex Bohl,Pamela Poe,Pamela Poe,Barbara Williams,Elizabeth A. Phelan +7 more
TL;DR: Joiners and nonjoiners of fall prevention programs were similar in their experience of loss associated with aging, core values they expressed, and emotional response to falling, but interventions targeted at a high-risk group need to address individual beliefs as well as structural and social factors to enhance participation.
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Effects of a complex intervention on fall risk in the general practitioner setting: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Ellen Freiberger,Wolfgang A. Blank,Johannes Salb,Barbara Geilhof,Christian Hentschke,Peter Landendoerfer,Martin Halle,Monika Siegrist +7 more
TL;DR: The strategy to address older persons at high risk of falling in the GP setting with a complex exercise intervention was successful and in functionally declined, community-dwelling, older persons a complex intervention for reducing fall risks was effective compared with usual care.
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