[PDF] Top 20 Characteristics of outdoor falls among older people : a qualitative study

... with older people across the UK to obtain accounts of their experiences of falls in outdoor environments, with the aims of exploring the self-reported contextual factors associated with ... See full document

... environment. Outdoor falls are frequent; ap- proximately half of falls among adults aged 65+ occur in outdoor environments ...[10-13]. Outdoor falls also have risk factors ... See full document

... Key characteristics of included studies were extracted by SF and independently checked by JB and ...each study, the following were extracted: author, year of publication, country of origin, stated aim, ... See full document

... Many older persons in our study accepted that phys- ical exercise reduced the risk of falls and were already trying various forms of exercises such walking, Qigong, Tai Chi, line dancing and ...our ... See full document

... Intervention Study) study is a modified cohort [15] pragmatic, two arm, open, randomised controlled trial (RCT) with an economic evaluation and nested qualitative ...this study the cmRCT ... See full document

... baseline characteristics between men and ...activity-specific falls and injurious falls were computed and compared by sex using negative binomial regression models that account for over ...of ... See full document

... Information on socio-demographic characteristics and lifestyle behavior was collected by an interview. Frailty was assessed according to the criteria of Fried et al. [21]: weight loss in the last 6 months (short ... See full document

... Falls among older adults with intellectual disability (ID) living in the community are also a cause for ...concern. People with ID have been observed to experience signs of ageing from their ... See full document

... of study: Yoga improves balance and mobility, and therefore has potential as a fall prevention strategy, yet its validity for preventing falls has not been ...prevent falls. This study aimed ... See full document

... 389 falls that occurred outside the home, 309 were outdoors and 80 were in public ...Of falls that occurred outdoors, ...on outdoor stairs or steps, and ...80 falls that occurred inside public ... See full document

... Abstract: Aim: To describe the prevalence, cir- cumstances and consequences of falls among community-dwelling older people in NSW using data from the 2009 NSW Falls Prevention Base- ... See full document

... The costs of these falls are a substantial burden to the NHS and the PSS. The total cost is equivalent to almost 20% of the total NHS expenditure on pharmaceuticals, the total budget for one of the 38 new ... See full document

... to falls-related interventions Originally, the third recommendation proposed that all forms of social encouragement should be maximised, but comments and debate highlighted the risk that excessive social pressure ... See full document

... to falls occurring at high frequency in the elderly (children and athletes have an even higher incidence of falls), a key point is that the increased inci- dence of falls is combined with an ... See full document

... 1,127 people were admitted to the wards during the study ...Some people with cognitive impairment were excluded as we were unable to contact the “responsible person” to gain ...of people with ... See full document

... Collecting falls data using prospective methods is time consuming and ...the older person understands how to record falls on a diary or ...report falls to obtain further data about the ...DEGS ... See full document

... in older people as part of palliative ...of older people are complex and challenging as older people with cancer are more likely to become frail and vulnerable (Mohile et al ... See full document

... Our study provided invaluable insights into the safety and appropriateness of delivering this novel falls preven- tion activity program for stroke survivors, which contri- butes to our current understanding ... See full document

... The continuous variables were presented as mean (standard deviation) and the categorical variables were presented as count (percentage). To compare the characteristics between the two groups, a two-sampled t-test ... See full document

... Age, sex, place of residence, education level, and self-perceived poverty, except marital status, were significant “predictors” of the overall health literacy score in unadjusted and multivariable-adjusted general linear ... See full document