Community-level obstacles encompass transportation difficulties, program costs, and a lack of education and awareness about fall prevention resources, while societal barriers center on age-related ...

Same-level falls are the number 1 cause of injury seen at OHSU Trauma Center, and the leading cause of death and injury for Americans over the age of 65. Fall prevention education is a priority for ...

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to: M M Gardner, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of ...

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The course is an outcome of an MoU signed earlier between St. Xavier's University, Kolkata and India Japan Laboratory of Keio University, a statement informed.

Based on these findings, the USPSTF recommends against supplementation with vitamin D, with or without calcium, for the primary prevention of fractures or falls in community-dwelling ...

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1 Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2 Department of Orthopaedics ... mental control, immune capacity, and the prevention of falls in elderly ...

As Professor Delbaere, who is also president of the Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society, says: “Falling hurts so we don’t practice it and it can be embarrassing.” Even the ...

A new Perspective article published in the New England Journal of Medicine emphasizes the critical role of Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) in addressing the growing global burden of ...

With this knowledge, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide works to do for the victims of genocide today what the world failed to do for the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.