Table 1 presents a summary of risk factors for falls identified from studies undertaken in people with cognitive impairment and dementia. In presenting this information, we have categorized risk ...

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

“Concerns about falling are highly prevalent in older adults, affecting nearly one in two people by age 86,” said the study’s senior author, Professor Kim Delbaere, from the Falls, Balance ...

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.

This increases their risk of loneliness and frailty. Health professionals can discuss fall prevention with their elderly patients as often, a health professional’s recommendation can convince people ...

You’re a patient in a hospital, it’s late at night, and you really have to use the bathroom. There are no nurses or other medical staff in sight, so you ease yourself out of the bed and make your way ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Fall Prevention in Cognitively Impaired Older People In the community ... specialist geriatric postoperative management. Multimedia patient education with/without allied health follow-up has ...