Ambulatory clinic settings pose unique challenges to mitigating patients’ fall risks, but these interventions can help ensure patient safety.

When Luisa (not her real name), a hale and healthy sexagenarian, hit her head on the floor after falling off her favorite folding chair, her daughter contacted me immediately to ask if she should be ...

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

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 ...

A new piece of technology powered by AI is reducing falls and changing lives at one senior community in Tucson.

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

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Retired nurse Marie Calderone has spent her life witnessing falls and seeing the impacts – events that for those over 55 can ...