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Fall Prevention: Lifestyle Factors and Fall Risk

EDIS, 2013
Many things can cause you to fall. The good news is that you can make some easy changes to decrease your risk of falling. This 2-page fact sheet was written by Linda B.
Linda B. Bobroff, Jennifer Hillan
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Fall Prevention: Lifestyle Factors and Fall Risk

EDIS, 2005
There are many things that may cause you to fall, and you can change several of them. This document includes some easy changes you can make to decrease your risk of falling.
Jennifer Hillan
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSES' KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLIANCE IN PERFORMING FALL RISK RE-ASSESSMENT

Journal of Vocational Nursing, 2022
Introduction: The fall incidence will have a detrimental impact on the hospital, staffs and patients as the service recipients. This can be prevented by conducting fall risk reassessment.
Arlina Dhian Sulistyowati, Esri Rusminingsih, Devi Permata Sari, Fitriana Noor Kayati, Yuli Widhi A   +4 more
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Identifying and defining entities associated with fall risk factors events found in fall risk assessment tools

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 2023
Purpose: The contents of nursing notes play an important role in predicting patient fall risk. Based on data collected from fall risk assessment tools, we aimed to identify and define fall risk factors to support natural language processing, data mining ...
Fatimah Altuhaifa, Dalal Al Tuhaifa, Eman Al Ribh, Ezdehar Al Rebh   +3 more
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Fall Risk Assessment Using Wearable Sensors: A Narrative Review

Sensors, 2022
Recently, fall risk assessment has been a main focus in fall-related research. Wearable sensors have been used to increase the objectivity of this assessment, building on the traditional use of oversimplified questionnaires.
Rafael N. Ferreira, Nuno Ferrete Ribeiro, Cristina P. Santos   +2 more
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Fall Risk Assessment

Journal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 2018
Arvind Mathur
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Fall Prevention: Who's at Risk?

EDIS, 2005
There are many risk factors associated with falls. Some risks are environmental, like poor lighting. Others relate to diseases people have or medications they take. It’s important to know if you are at high risk of falling.
Sergio Romero
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Assessing the predictive value of common gait measure for predicting falls in patients presenting with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus

BMC Neurology, 2021
Objective To assess the predictive value of common measures validated to predict falls in other geriatric populations in patients presenting with suspected Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH).
Alexander Davis, Mark Luciano, Abhay Moghekar, Sevil Yasar   +3 more
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Effectiveness and Usability of a Novel Kinect-Based Tailored Interactive Fall Intervention System for Fall Prevention in Older People: A Preliminary Study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Falls are prevalent among older people and can lead to serious health problems. We newly developed a novel Kinect-based tailored interactive fall intervention system, which seamlessly integrates multifactorial fall risk assessment and tailored ...
Taekyoung Kim, Shuping Xiong
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Exploration of Fall-Evaluation Scores Using Clinical Tools with the Short-Form Berg Balance Scale and Timed Up and Go and Motion Detection Sensors

Applied Sciences, 2020
The results obtained by medical experts and inertial sensors via clinical tests to determine fall risks are compared. A clinical test is used to perform the whole timed up and go (TUG) test and segment-based TUG (sTUG) tests, considering various cutoff ...
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Chi-Han Wu, Bernard C. Jiang, Tien-Lung Sun   +3 more
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