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The fear of falling can ironically lead to more falls among the elderly, according to new research. Gait disturbances, or difficulty walking as a result of old age, often have many causes, according to the researchers from the Neurological Hospital and Health Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany. These can include visual defects, neurodegeneration of [...] Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, according to a study by the University of British Columbia. The study, published Nov. 23 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, provides the latest quantitative evidence of the impact of certain classes of medication on falling among seniors. Falling and fall-related complications such as [...] You would think hospitals are safe places. And they generally are. Yet injuries do happen *in* hospitals. And the # 1 injury is falling down, as this chilling excerpt from WBUR in Boston relates: It had been a typical Friday afternoon in the summer. “All of a sudden, out of nowhere, we heard a humongous thud,” recalled [...] As you may have heard, Pope Benedict slipped and fell in his bathtub last week. He broke his wrist and will have a cast for a month. Some of you may recall that Pope John II also fell in the bathroom in 1994, fracturing his thighbone. Perhaps the Vatican should consider buying a walk-in bathtub to [...] Fractures most common injury; one in three injuries required hospitalization From 2001 to 2006, an average of 129 Americans ages 65 and older were treated in emergency departments each day—a total of more than 47,000 each year—for injuries from falls that involved walkers and canes, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published [...] |
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