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Risk factors for falls among older adults: a review of the literature.
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The major risk factors identified are impaired balance and gait, polypharmacy, and history of previous falls, which include advancing age, female gender, visual impairments, cognitive decline especially attention and executive dysfunction, and environmental factors.About:
This article is published in Maturitas.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 1209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Falls in older adults & Indirect costs.read more
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Cross-cultural validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) in Portuguese community-dwelling older adults
TL;DR: FES-I(P) is a reliable and valid measure of fear of falling for Portuguese community-living older people and its psychometric properties in samples of both non-community-dwelling and community-Dwelling older adults with different health conditions are analyzed.
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The role of quadriceps muscle strength in the development of falls in the elderly people, a cross-sectional study.
Alijan Ahmadi-Ahangar,Yahya Javadian,Mansour Babaei,Behzad Heidari,Seyed Reza Hosseini,Mohammad Aminzadeh +5 more
TL;DR: These findings indicate that older subjects with lower QMS are at greater risk of falls, and provide a rational for muscle strengthening exercise in older people.
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eHomeSeniors Dataset: An Infrared Thermal Sensor Dataset for Automatic Fall Detection Research.
TL;DR: The eHomeSeniors dataset is presented, a new public dataset which is innovative in at least three aspects: first, it collects data from two different privacy-friendly infrared thermal sensors; second, it is constructed by two types of volunteers: normal young people and performing artists, with the latter group assisted by a physiotherapist to emulate the real fall conditions of older adults.
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Apathy Mediates Cognitive Difficulties in Geriatric Depression.
TL;DR: It is implied that increased apathy mediates the relationship between cognition and depression, and the identification of mediating effects may inform future treatment strategies and preventive interventions that can focus on decreasing apathy to improve cognition in late-life depression.
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Fear of falling in vision impairment.
TL;DR: A review of the literature on fear of falling, its measurement, and risk factors among older populations, with specific focus on older adults with visual impairment, and to identify directions for future research in this area is provided in this article.
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Risk factors for falls among elderly persons living in the community.
TL;DR: It is concluded that falls among older persons living in the community are common and that a simple clinical assessment can identify the elderly persons who are at the greatest risk of falling.
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Performance-oriented assessment of mobility problems in elderly patients
TL;DR: A practical performance-oriented assessment of mobility is described that incorporates useful features of both approaches and the recommended evaluation centers on the more effective use of readily (and frequently) obtained clinical data.