Every 11 seconds, an elderly person visits the emergency room due to a fall, and every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from fall-related injuries, according to the CDC’s National Center for Injury ...

Older adults who wear progressive lenses are more likely to experience a fall or multiple falls than those who wear bifocals.

Proposed legislation making two "critical changes" to the Medicare program could save millions of dollars annually by preventing hospitalizations for older adults who fall, according to professional ...

Act (HR1171) has been reintroduced and would allow physical and occupational therapists to provide no-cost fall risk assessments to Medicare beneficiaries during their annual wellness visits or ...

It is intended for health care providers, caregivers and individuals who provide care to older adults. The training examines age related changes and modifiable risk factors associated with falls and ...

By Bob ArnoldA new Brookhaven-based therapy venue is helping people improve their health by addressing balance and foot ...

N-AVD treatment in older cHL patients shows high efficacy with 79% progression-free and 97% overall survival rates at three years. The regimen is well-tolerated, with low rates of immune-related side ...

These include Public Health England’s National Falls Prevention Coordinating Group, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries Initiative, and ...

Conclusions The hazards caused by falls to the elderly in China cannot be ignored. A multidimensional customised fall prevention programme should be considered to reduce the risk of falls among the ...

Prophylactic aspirin in healthy, elderly patients provides no benefit and causes harm; clinicians should not use it for primary prevention in otherwise well patients aged over 70. As the world’s ...

For patients who are at risk of falling, using an exercise bike where they are seated is an option. Exercise is actually an important way to help prevent falls, Thornton said, because it can ...