Among older adults who fall, more than half receive care in a hospital — with the estimated annual average cost per inpatient visit for falls injuries totalling $18,658, and $1,112 for ...

Although falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death in older people worldwide, and annual balance testing is recommended, it's rarely done in clinical practice.

Engineers built E-BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set of robotic handlebars that ...

Older adults who wear progressive-addition lens glasses appeared at increased risk for falls compared with older adults who wear bifocals, according to a study published in Optometry and Vision ...

And people recovering from surgery or injuries may not be ready to get down on a yoga mat, but they can stretch in a chair. “I’ve known these ladies probably 18 to 20 years.

Elderly hiker dies from fall at Catskills' Kaaterskill Falls. ... Two people died in the summer of 2014. The DEC briefly restricted access to the falls for upgrades in 2015.