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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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Adaptation of multijoint coordination during standing balance in healthy young and healthy old individuals.
Denise Engelhart,Jantsje H. Pasma,Alfred C. Schouten,Ronald G.K.M. Aarts,Carel G. M. Meskers,Andrea B. Maier,H. van der Kooij +6 more
TL;DR: Model fits showed that elderly had higher intrinsic and reflexive stiffness of the ankle, together with higher time delays of the hip, and the elderly adapted their Reflexive stiffness around the ankle joint less compared with young participants, implying that elderly were stiffer and were less able to adapt to external force fields.
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Effects of a falls prevention exercise programme on health-related quality of life in older home care recipients: a randomised controlled trial
TL;DR: A falls prevention exercise programme based on OEP significantly improved physical HRQOL and balance in older adults receiving home care and caused a decline in the mental health subscale of SF-36.
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Exercise for reducing falls in people living with and beyond cancer.
Andrew Williams,Marie-Louise Bird,Sibella Gk Hardcastle,M Kirschbaum,Kathryn Ogden,Julia A E Walters +5 more
TL;DR: The evidence for prescribed or provided exercise for reducing accidental falls, and falls risk factors of strength, flexibility and balance, in people living with and beyond cancer was very low, with issues of imprecision due to small sample sizes, inconsistency and indirectness.
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Detection of Gait Abnormalities for Fall Risk Assessment Using Wrist-Worn Inertial Sensors and Deep Learning.
TL;DR: A novel method for determining gait abnormalities based on a wrist-worn device and a deep neural network that integrates convolutional and bidirectional long short-term memory layers for successful learning of spatiotemporal features from multiple sensor signals.
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Temporal Patterns of In-Hospital Falls of Elderly Patients.
Pablo Jesús López-Soto,Michael H. Smolensky,Linda Sackett-Lundeen,Alfredo De Giorgi,María A Rodríguez-Borrego,Roberto Manfredini,Cristiano Pelati,Fabio Fabbian +7 more
TL;DR: Documentation by cause and circumstance of these moderate- to high-amplitude temporal patterns in hospital falls of elderly patients advances the knowledge of fall epidemiology by identifying the times of day, week, and year and nursing shifts of elevated risk that is of critical importance to improving hospital patient safety programs.
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