Dementia and Falls
Effectiveness of exercise programs to reduce falls in older people with dementia living in the community: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... programs to reduce falls in older people with dementia who are living in the community. Data from three RCTs and one single pre- and post-test study with a total of 243 participants completing post testing ...
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Is it feasible to deliver a complex intervention to improve the outcome of falls in people with dementia? A protocol for the DIFRID feasibility study
... for Dementia; DIFRID: Developing an intervention for fall related injuries in dementia; ED: Emergency department; EQ-5D-5L: European Quality of Life Instrument-5 Dimensions-5 levels; GAS: Goal Attainment ...
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Risk factors for recurrent injurious falls that require hospitalization for older adults with dementia: a population based study
... for dementia patients in WA [29] and lower prescription rates of cholinester- ase inhibitors for Alzheimer ’ s Disease in WA [30], highlighting possible inequities in levels of care for people with dementia ...
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The nursing staff's opinion of falls among older persons with dementia. a cross-sectional study
... of falls between different types of geriatric facilities are reported ...with dementia, studies report incidence rates between 4.1 and 6.2 falls per person year ...prevent falls ...
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Dementia, falls and fractures
... “... a place/service where members of the public, paid caregivers and health and social care professionals can report any concerns about people who are becoming fragile or forgetful, including those who have been ...
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The association of specific executive functions and falls risk in people with mild cognitive impairment and early stage dementia
... that falls risk might not be related to all aspects of executive functions in people with mild cognitive impairment and early stage ...to falls risk; other aspects of executive function such as complex ...
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A development study and randomised feasibility trial of a tailored intervention to improve activity and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia
... mild dementia from memory assessment clinics, and a family member or ...brief falls assessment and advice as a control ...living, falls and a battery of intermediate and distal health status ...
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Falls and falls efficacy: the role of sustained attention in older adults
... with falls in older adults and may represent a novel marker of falls ...and falls [17-19,23], or low scores/longer reaction times on tests of attention and increasing gait variability or postural ...
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Factors Contributing to Falls and the Effect of a Multipronged Approach on the Incidence of Falls in the Elderly in an Outpatient Setting
... and falls showed that fallers belonged to the group with stroke (89%), Parkinson’s disease (77%), dementia (60%), epilepsy (57%) and tinnitus (30%) and headache ...
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Falls and falls efficacy: the role of sustained attention in older adults
... with falls in older adults and may represent a novel marker of falls ...and falls [17-19,23), or low scores/longer reaction times on tests of attention and increasing gait variability or postural ...
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A feasibility study and pilot randomised trial of a tailored prevention program to reduce falls in older people with mild dementia
... the dementia and its consequences, for example, discus- sion of home safety recommendations may have had implications for decision making about future care needs, which is also ...
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Association between dentures and the rate of falls in dementia
... of falls and oral health from elderly with dementia, which can cause ...about falls in ...of falls in elderly with ...of falls and associations derived by logistic ...
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Dementia trials and dementia tribulations: methodological and analytical challenges in dementia research
... of dementia-associated decline. Latent growth (or random effects) models are commonly used in dementia research. These approaches account for the auto-correlated nature of data generated from longitudinal ...
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Falls efficacy, postural balance, and risk for falls in older adults with falls-related emergency department visits: prospective cohort study
... baseline falls efficacy and postural balance. Falls efficacy was measured with the 14-item Modified Falls Efficacy Scale (MFES) questionnaire ...
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Development and delivery of an exercise programme for falls prevention : the Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT)
... for falls prevention exercise programmes, the intervention (OEP) comprises strength and balance exercises, a walking plan and is of sufficient duration ...community falls services and existing exercise ...
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NASH Wendell Falls, LLC. Wendell Falls Founders Contest OFFICIAL RULES
... The Sponsor will select and record the names of three (3) Founders that are potential winners and three (3) Founders that are alternative winners, subject to verification. The Prize will be awarded to three (3) Founders ...
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Falls and consequent injuries in hospitalized patients: effects of an interdisciplinary falls prevention program
... If clinicians adherence to the intervention protocol was inconsistent, it remains unclear if this can be explained by a lack of commitment on the part of the physicians and the nurses, by insufficient knowledge about ...
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Circumstances of falls and falls-related injuries in a cohort of older patients following hospital discharge
... 255 falls for which there were data available, 190 falls ...When falls that occurred in residential facilities (n = 52) were removed from the analysis, there were 203 falls occurring in the ...
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Falls and risk factors of falls for urban and rural community-dwelling older adults in China
... of falls in rural and urban ...after falls in rural and urban areas ...of falls vary among rural and urban ...of falls among Chinese older people, the paper will first review fall risk factors ...
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A Person Falls from a Window
... As may be calculated by the equation in Case 1, a shard would fall this distance in one second, so that the distance of a shard on the ground from the wall of the building would equal it[r] ...
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