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Tag: elderly fall prevention
Visually Impaired Individuals at Significant Greater Risk of Diminished Balance
Wear them if you need them! UC Davis Health System Eye Center research has found that visually impaired individuals and those those who could benefit from glasses to achieve normal vision but donÛªt wear glasses ÛÓ have a significantly greater risk of diminished balance than individuals with normal vision.The research...
Drink Wine Fall Less (VIDEO)
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Drink Wine Fall Less
Sounds too good to be true huh!åÊ Because the inclination is to believe the more you drink the more unstable you become and the more likely to fall. For eight weeks, scientists at Duquesne University, led by Assistant Professor of Pharmacology Jane E. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., fed old and young mice...
Cataract Surgery Reduces Incidence of Hip Fracture
Maybe this is one of those “really you needed a study for this?” posts. University of California, Los Angeles researchers found that Medicare beneficiaries who had cataract surgery had lower odds of hip fracture within 1 year after surgery compared with patients who had not undergone cataract surgery. Think about...
Make Your Home Safer to Prevent Falls (VIDEO)
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Make Your Home Safer to Prevent Falls
Would you allow your child to wander outside alone, in the dark, without supervision? The answer to this question is inevitably ÛÏno.Û However, for some if this question was replaced with ÛÏparentÛ the answer immediately changes to ÛÏyes.Û But as parents get older, they may need protection too, even from...
Hip Fractures in Women Deadly
Prevent falls. Prevent hip fractures.@Don Farral, Getty Images Hip fractures in women ages 65 to 79 are linked to in an increase in short-term mortality according to an ongoing Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research report. Investigators followed 1,116 women who had hip fractures and compared them with about 4,500...
Fall Prone Fail to Adjust Walking Speed
Seniors prone to falling might do so because they fail to adjust their walking speed to their vision impairments. Irish investigators from Trinity College in Dublin divided 17 participants into three groups and made them complete a walking course, once while wearing goggles that blurred their vision and once without...
Decreased Ability to Anticipate Distances Increases Fall Risk Among Elderly
Texas A&M Research reveals that injuries from falls and other accidents among the aging can often be attributed to a decline in ability to mentally estimate and anticipate stepping and reaching distances. Professor Carl Gabbard, director of the Texas A&M Motor Development Laboratory, focused on äóìestimation of reachabilityäó äóî whether...