Artificial intelligence sensors that can send an alert if a vulnerable person has fallen at home or missed a meal are to form ...

GPs can more accurately identify older people’s frailty and intervene earlier as a result of NIHR-funded research led by the ...

Occupational therapists help patients who are experiencing dementia ... This combined approach helps reduce the risk of falls, particularly for older adults or individuals with mobility challenges.

New Jersey health care professionals believe simple, cost-effective strategies could help older adults avoid unintentional falls.

"We know that for every day an elderly patient spends in a bed or on a stretcher ... painful bursitis in her hip made worse by a recent fall. She also has a blood clot in her leg.

At UCSF Parnassus Campus, medical personnel go into work with a mission every day to prevent delirium - or hospital confusion ...

D eath rates from breast cancer will fall in 2025 in every age group in the EU and the UK apart from in EU patients aged 80 ...

Renate Mark, 84, died a day after falling over in a ward at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital last year ...

Dispensing spectacles to older patients is a critical aspect of eye care that directly impacts their quality of life. The eye-related changes that occur as we age can lead to various complications, ...

As people get older, their bodies process alcohol more slowly, and the effects of alcohol last longer and hit harder. Changes in body composition, like more body fat and less water, make alcohol stay ...

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has been fined after failures relating to patient falls in its hospitals.