Falls can be prevented, especially in a hospital setting. This course provides tools to implement a fall prevention program, including infrastructure, assessments and processes, fall reduction tips, ...

The Living Lab is unlike most research labs. There are no petri dishes, microscopes or any of the usual accoutrements usually ...

Considering taking supplements to treat fall prevention? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of fall prevention. Follow the links to read common uses ...

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) recently made recommended updates to the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries (STEADI) toolkit, focusing on fall prevention initiatives in primary care ...

Advocates are calling on congress to pass a bill to protect older adults from falling. The CDC says falls are the leading ...

Conclusions—Exercise is effective in lowering falls risk in selected groups and should form part of falls prevention programmes. Lowering fall related injuries will reduce health care costs but there ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Anand Parekh is the chief medical advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Older adult falls result in 38,000 deaths, 1 million ...

Objective The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials ...