Recovery from a serious fall depends on a patient’s health trajectory before the fall, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers followed more than 700 geriatric patients ...

The flight started smoothly, just another routine trip through the sky. Then came the announcement: “There is going to be moderate turbulence when we get over northern Kentucky.” I barely registered ...

OSHKOSH - Two new bills could implement lifting devices and fall prevention and recovery programs in nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Wisconsin. Led by Oshkosh-area public safety ...

Falls represent a major cause of injury and loss of independence in older adults. Recent advances in balance training have focussed on perturbation‐based methods that challenge the neuromuscular ...

There is a strong association between an older person's view of how they are aging and how well they will physically recover after a fall. That is the finding of a new research study which is the ...

Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. With this prevalence of patient, staff and visitor falls, healthcare facilities require fall ...

There is a strong association between an older person's view of how they are aging and how well they will physically recover after a fall. That is the finding of a new research study from Imperial ...