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... or older, living inde- pendently in the community, able to walk with or without an assistive device, but without the assistance of another person, able to follow simple instructions, an ab- sence of known ... See full document

... community-living older adults. Thirty to sixty percent of community-living older adults fall each year ...of falls result in considerable mortality, morbid- ity, reduced functioning and ... See full document

... cause falls or injuries and consequently loss of autonomy in daily ...Supra postural task has been defined as “behavioral goal that is super ordinate to the control of posture” ...Supra ... See full document

... with falls – hypertension and COPD – were included in our consideration of multi-morbidity as a result of multi-morbidity measurement recommendations [15], not because of their specific associ- ation to ...to ... See full document

... Twenty-six older adults ...the Falls Unit, University Hospital Mútua Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, participated in this single- group ...Volunteers’ postural control was evaluated using ... See full document

... the postural control system in humans, which could have important implications for practitioners and researchers working with a variety of ...to postural control in a number of laboratory ... See full document

... for older adults to experience impairments in vision and hearing, which can contribute to a reduced environmental awareness (Kulmala et ...2007). Older adults appear to have less cognitive ... See full document

... injurious falls increases by 2% for each additional drug, in a remarkably linear ...injurious falls is in keeping with the results from a recent meta-analysis 24 and from a longitudinal cohort study of ... See full document

... 20 adults participated in the present study after giving their written ...the control group (CG) composed of ten elderly subjects, including seven females and three males (mean ± standard deviation [SD]: ... See full document

... for older adults in the UK ...for adults over eighty [1]. Falls have a serious conse- quence not only for the person in relation to the healthy life years lost due to disability, but in ... See full document

... the postural sway ...in postural sway complexity with the addition of sub-sensory noise is thus notable and likely not a measurement ...the postural control ... See full document

... for Older Adults Course – held at the School of Phys- ical Education and Sport of the University of São Paulo – participated in the ...for Older Adults ... See full document

... and falls [15]. Interestingly, fear of falling has been reported in older people who have not fallen suggesting that factors other than falls history may influence the manifestation of fear of ... See full document

... are older adults, aged 67 or older, receiving home help services, who are able to walk with or without walking aids, who have experienced at least one fall during the last 12 months and who have a ... See full document

... Results: Retrospective fallers had larger delayed declines in systolic arterial pressure (SAP) compared to non-fallers ( p = 0.015). Fallers also showed poorer early (2 min) and late (15 min) recovery of SAP. Fallers had ... See full document

... baseline falls efficacy and postural balance. Falls efficacy was measured with the 14-item Modified Falls Efficacy Scale (MFES) questionnaire ...Standing postural balance was measured ... See full document

... in older adults seems to be related to many of the postural control changes and that activity-based interventions can improve balance [22], an understanding of the mechanism through which ... See full document

... Balance: Postural sway was measured using a Nintendo Wii-Fit ™ balance ...customised postural sway program (Flatters, Culmer, Holt, Wilkie, & Mon-Williams, 2014) using LabVIEW (National Instruments) ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... of falls measured over a 12-month period from enrolment in this study) comparing two groups: an exercise park intervention group (EPIG) and a control group ...the control group were advised to ... See full document