Fear of Falling
Fear of falling in older adults
... In a study o f 378 older adults (mean age 78.21 years) recruited through their GP, complex exercise intervention was associated w ith a moderate reduction in FOF at follow-up. In this study, participants attended a one ...
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Factors associated with developing a fear of falling in subjects with primary open-angle glaucoma
... a fear of ...of fear of falling in 83 control subjects with bilateral VF loss and 60 control subjects without VF defects; they found that fear of falling was more severe in subjects ...
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Sex Differences in Fear of Falling among Older Adults with Low Grip Strength
... a fear of falling, phys- ical functions such as static balance and complex mobility are either poor or degenerating ...and fear of falling in older men and women, Kim et ...a fear of ...
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Falls and fear of falling in older adults with total joint arthroplasty: a scoping review
... Intrinsic risk factors for falls commonly seen in OA, in- clude muscle weakness [8], balance deficits [9], pain [9], and fear of falling [7]. Others, however, have reported that balance deficits may not ...
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Fear of Falling Among High-Risk, Urban, Community-Dwelling Older Adults
... about falling as measured by the FOF scale and the ...about falling as measured by the FES-I and participation in activities as measured by the ...addressing fear of falling, fall risk, ...
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Psychometric properties of four fear of falling rating scales in people with Parkinson’s disease
... Background: Fear of falling (FOF) is commonly experienced in people with Parkinson ’ s disease (PD). It is a predictor of recurrent falls, a barrier to physical exercise, and negatively associated with ...
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<p>A systematic review on the influence of fear of falling on quality of life in older people: is there a role for falls?</p>
... as fear associated with falls might be just as detrimental for the individual in the long ...of fear of falling (FoF) has been reported, ranging from 3% to as high as 92% of the community-dwelling ...
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Fear of Falling and Related Factors in Older Adults in the City of Kashan in 2017
... obtained, fear of falling is in excess of 90% in Kashan’s older adults, and older people using anxiolytic and hypnotic medications, those older than 70 years of age, and those with no education have a ...
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Expanding assessment of fear of falling among older adults with an intellectual disability
... Confidence (ABC) Scale [25], the Falls Efficacy Scale (FES) [26], the Short FES [27], the Geriatric Fear of Falling Measure [28], and the Fear of Falling Avoidance Behaviour Ques- tionnaire ...
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Fear of falling: efficacy of virtual reality associated with serious games in elderly people
... treat fear of ...for fear of ...of falling, we then administered serious games as a form of augmented reality to reinstate their bodily reality and embody the new beliefs induced by the virtual ...
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Fear of falling and associated activity restriction in older people. results of a cross-sectional study conducted in a Belgian town
... of fear of falling and of related activity restriction, and the modifications made to the home environment or the ones that would be necessary to decrease the risk of fall- ...
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Associations between health-related quality of life, physical function and fear of falling in older fallers receiving home care
... and fear of falling in addition to the relationship between these factors in a group of older fallers receiving home ...and fear of falling within this group is ...
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Relationship between fear of falling and mobility varies with visual function among older adults
... FOF, fear of falling; FOF-AR, fear of falling with activity restriction; FOF-NAR, fear of falling with no activity restriction; TUG, Timed Up-and-Go; VA, visual acuity; VAS, ...
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The association between fear of falling and quality of life for balance impairments based on hip and ankle strategies in the drug On- and Off-phase of patients with idiopathic Parkinson' disease
... Methods: In this non-experimental cross-sectional study, 139 patients with idiopathic Parkinson' disease (100 male, 39 female) by mean± SD age of 60.2±12.27 years, mean±SD time since diagnosis of 6.7±5.53 years and ...
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The geriatric depression scale and the timed up and go test predict fear of falling in community-dwelling elderly women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study
... the fear of falling is associated with an in- crease in gait variability in older adults ...a fear of falling had a significantly worse performance on functional tests - TUG and handgrip ...
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The effects of high frequency subthalamic stimulation on balance performance and fear of falling in patients with Parkinson's disease
... Thirty minutes after programming the DBS, the assess- ments were performed in the following order: motor symptoms, clinical performance tests, subjective ratings of fear of falling and posturography. The ...
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Fear of falling in age-related macular degeneration
... with fear of falling in this cohort of older ...greater fear of falling, indi- cating that fear of falling is greater in AMD patients with greater vision ...substantial ...
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The Impact of Fear of Falling on Functional Independence Among Older Adults Receiving Home Health Services
... a fear of falling did not necessarily report low levels of confidence on the FES ...of falling?” also reported they perceived they were susceptible to future falls and that they perceived future ...
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Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community
... of fear of falling immediately post intervention indicated the potential that we had failed to identify and include some small studies with negative ...reducing fear of ...for fear of ...
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Factors associated with fear of falling in people with Parkinson’s disease
... of falling as compared to healthy individuals at the same age, but also in relation to people with other neurological disor- ders ...and fear of falling (FOF) was then highlighted as one of the risk ...
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