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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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Development and validation of a robotic multifactorial fall-risk predictive model: A one-year prospective study in community-dwelling older adults.
Alberto Cella,Alice De Luca,Valentina Squeri,Sara Parodi,Francesco Vallone,Angela Giorgeschi,Barbara Senesi,Ekaterini Zigoura,Katerin Leslie Quispe Guerrero,Giacomo Siri,Lorenzo De Michieli,Jody A. Saglia,Carlo Sanfilippo,Alberto Pilotto +13 more
TL;DR: Combining clinical and robotic assessments can more accurately identify older people at high risk of falls, thereby enabling personalized fall-prevention interventions to be undertaken, and significantly improves the accuracy of predicting the risk of falling in community-dwelling older people.
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Fatal falls in the elderly and the presence of proximal femur fractures
TL;DR: A potential of avoiding up to 22% of the GLF fatalities by preventing hip fractures by optimized hip protectors or other measures, especially for the elderly aged 75 + years is indicated.
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A longitudinal analysis of loneliness, social isolation and falls amongst older people in England.
TL;DR: This study drew on large scale, nationally representative data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing linked with Hospital Episode Statistics to investigate the longitudinal association between loneliness, social isolation and falls amongst older adults in England.
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Falls Risk Classification of Older Adults Using Deep Neural Networks and Transfer Learning
TL;DR: This paper proposes using fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) to classify older adults at low or high risk of falling using inertial sensor data collected from a smartphone, and shows that this method outperforms other standard machine learning classifiers trained on features developed in prior research.
The Effect of Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Daily Functioning in Older People
Jenni Kulmala,Jenni Kulmala,Jenni Kulmala,Tiia Ngandu,Tiia Ngandu,Satu Havulinna,Esko Levälahti,Jenni Lehtisalo,Alina Solomon,Alina Solomon,Riitta Antikainen,Riitta Antikainen,Tiina Laatikainen,Tiina Laatikainen,Pauliina Pippola,Markku Peltonen,Rainer Rauramaa,Hilkka Soininen,Timo E. Strandberg,Timo E. Strandberg,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Miia Kivipelto +22 more
TL;DR: To investigate the effect of a 2‐year multidomain lifestyle intervention on daily functioning of older people, a large number of subjects were randomly selected to undergo a 2-year intervention.
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