Fall Prevention

Broader assessment required to analyze effectiveness of elderly fall-prevention programs
A new study dispersed elders that had recently fallen into three separate intervention groupings to determine which was the most effective in preventing future falls. The method used to establish the strongest group took into account various quality of life aspects not limited to number of falls. The group that administered exercise on a biweekly basis proved to be the most helpful of the three, and also pointed out that factors other than the incident of falls are relevant in assessing these methods' preventative value.

Australian study investigates shockingly low level of concern in elderly regarding falls
Although there have been an abundance of efforts put forth to raise awareness and decrease falls in the elderly, most seniors fail to realize that they are in fact at a high risk of sustaining a fall, an Australian study states. The study phoned a large number of elders in the state of New South Wales, Australia, asking whether they considered themselves to be at risk for suffering a fall, to which most responded that they in fact were not particularly vulnerable.