As you visit loved ones this holiday season and as you make your resolution and to-do list for 2013, consider this guest blog from Rescue Alert of California. The growing popularity of medical alert systems goes hand-in-hand with the increasing numbers of seniors who receive in-home care. However, living in...
Tag: fall prevention
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...
Dance Therapy Improves Seniors’ Balance
Two recent studies conducted by University of Missouri researchers found that participation in dance-based therapy can improve balance and gait in older adults. Improved functionality among seniors can decrease their risk of falling and reduce costly injuries. The researchers used a dance-therapy program called The Lebed Method (TLM), which includes...
Learn to Fall More Safely (Does that make any sense at all?!)
From Mcknights – Researchers say seniors with osteoporosis can use martial arts training to learn to fall more safely. Testing the force of impact of a variety of different martial arts fall exercises, research subjects performed sideways and forward martial arts falls, which involve turning the fall into a rolling...
More Information on Fall Protection – Hey Put Some Shoes On!
From McKnights – Researchers from the Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research have found that seniors who go barefoot or wear only socks around the home are at greater risk for falls. Up to 52% of the seniors studied who reported a fall were barefoot, wearing socks without shoes, or...