In 2024, about 3 million seniors went to the hospital due to complications from falls. Most had no protective system to ...

An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was successful at reducing falls, especially among those with polypharmacy, a new study shows.

An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was successful at reducing falls, especially among those with polypharmacy, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University ...

Inadequate fruit and vegetable intake significantly increases the risk of injurious falls in older adults, particularly in ...

Other guidelines recommend people aged 65 and over do “functional balance and strength training” on three or more days a week ...

Madam Tan’s experience is not uncommon. One in three seniors aged 65 and older has at least one fall a year worldwide, increasing to one in two for those aged above 80. Falls can result in ...

How do you prevent falls? For older adults who have experienced a fall, it would be useful to consult a geriatrics or fall prevention program. These are multi-disciplinary clinics designed to ...

Polypharmacy was defined as the regular use of four or more medications. Our findings suggest that, in order to enhance fall prevention in the elderly population, efforts to increase physical activity ...

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Amanda Overstreet about reducing the risk of falls in older adults. Dr. Overstreet is a geriatrician and Interim Medical Director of Geriatrics at MUSC.

Your plan for preventing falls may include getting more physical activity. Studies have shown that both individual and group exercise classes can help older adults prevent falls. Research suggests ...