Starting March 17, OSU Extension will offer Stepping On, at College Hills Retirement Village. The class will meet 10 a.m. to ...

Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury among older adults – while this news is startling, the Department of Health wants folks to know that falls are preventable. “Although we are the lowest in ...

Sylvie De Rham Tortorelli, physical therapist, demonstrates fall prevention exercises with her former patient Jo Wagner on Friday, May 25, in Bellingham. Evan Abell evan.abell@bellinghamherald.com ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The USPSTF recommends exercise and multifactorial interventions such as education and nutrition therapy to ...

Work-related injuries resulting from slips and falls take a heavy toll on businesses and employees. More than 600 deaths and 212,000 serious injuries were attributed to slips, trips and falls in 2009, ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Wednesday is the first day of autumn and it coincides with National Falls Prevention Awareness Week. The goal behind the week is to educate people and reduce the number of ...

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Falls, for older people, are serious. They can significantly impair mobility and independence. They may lead to hospitalization and subsequent placement in a long-term care facility or nursing home.

In people over the age of 65, falls are the leading cause of injuries. The Otago exercise program is a fall-prevention exercise program for the elderly. It was designed to prevent falls by ...

Objective The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an RN-Attorney with significant experience in both professions. Aug 26, 2025, 01:02pm EDT Most of us know some older person ...