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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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The cost of fall related presentations to the ED: A prospective, in-person, patient-tracking analysis of health resource utilization
TL;DR: The objective was to use a labor-intensive, direct observation patient-tracking method to accurately estimate the total cost of falls among seniors who presented to a major urban Emergency Department (ED) in Canada.
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Matching pursuit-based compressive sensing in a wearable biomedical accelerometer fall diagnosis device
Ryan Gibson,Ryan Gibson,Abbes Amira,Abbes Amira,Naeem Ramzan,Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera,Zeeshan Pervez +6 more
TL;DR: An evaluation of compressive sensing techniques in an accelerometer-based intelligent fall detection system modelled on a wearable Shimmer biomedical embedded computing device with Matlab shows highly accurate fall detection results, demonstrating significant advantages in comparison with the thresholding method presented.
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Development and validation of a falls-grading scale
Marcela Davalos-Bichara,Frank R. Lin,John P. Carey,Jeremy D. Walston,Jennifer E. Fairman,Michael C. Schubert,Jeremy S. Barron,Jennifer M. Hughes,Jennifer L. Millar,Anne Spar,Kristy L. Weber,Howard S. Ying,Kathleen M. Zackowski,David S. Zee,Yuri Agrawal +14 more
TL;DR: A scale to grade near-fall and fall events on the basis of their severity represented by the use of health care resources, with the goal of standardizing fall reporting in the clinical and research settings is developed and validated.
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Falls and cognitive decline in Mexican Americans 75 years and older
Anokha Padubidri,Soham Al Snih,Rafael Samper-Ternent,Kyriakos S. Markides,Kenneth J. Ottenbacher,Mukaila A. Raji +5 more
TL;DR: Having two or more falls was independently associated with steeper decline in cognition over 6 years, with a possible mediating effect of depression on the falls–cognition association.
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Highest prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy in institutionalized women compared with noninstitutionalized women: a case-control study.
TL;DR: A high prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy in institutionalized, postmenopausal, osteoporotic women is highlighted and a greater awareness of the importance of vitaminD inadequacy is needed in order to address this public health problem.
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