This week we are going to discuss something which is a very prevalent concern for those in the aging population, those with neurologic difficulties and those with other physiologic issues such as low ...

Health IT giant Cerner is best known for electronic health records, but it has other divisions. Notably, the Kansas City, Mo.-based company has been selling medical devices for more than a decade. The ...

The smartphone app used data from a questionnaire and balance tests to give users an intuitive fall risk score ranging between 0 and 100, indicating low, medium, or high fall risk. A smartphone app ...

Patients (and jurors) often have preconceived notions that a fall should never occur during a hospitalization. Hospitals themselves may have inadvertently created this higher expectation by adopting ...

—Fall prevention is paramount to MS care because of the high frequency of falls and the multitude of underlying risk factors associated with falling among MS patients. By Gloria Arminio Berlinski, MS ...

Fear of falling is likely to lead to future falls among older people, irrespective of their actual fall risk, a new study finds. Fear of falling is likely to lead to future falls among older people, ...

When an older adult falls, it can have life-changing impacts. In San Diego County, there were more than 33,000 emergency room discharges due to falls among people 60 years and older reported in 2023.