Healey announced $1.2 million in state funds would be made available to Fall River to hire more emergency response personnel.

An elderly Israeli woman died after she fell five stories from her hotel room in Greece, local media reported. An 83-year-old ...

Among older adults who fall, more than half receive care in a hospital — with the estimated annual average cost per inpatient ...

ALBANY, New Hampshire (WGME) -- An 82-year-old man is rescued after falling down an embankment in New Hampshire. Around two Wednesday morning, fish and game officers got a call about a man who had ...

Staffing ratios, the affordability of care, and safety regulations are all being reconsidered in the wake of the Fall River ...

A new study examining age-related macular degeneration (AMD) among elderly residents in Egyptian geriatric homes revealed connections between this vision condition and dangerous falls.

A nursing home employee was charged Thursday with causing an elderly woman on hospice care to fall on her face. The woman ...

The key findings include the following: Out of 190,348 individuals aged 65 and older who presented with dizziness, 32% filled ...

The following column was originally published Sept. 11, 2021. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...

Falls are the primary cause of injury-related death among older adults. Here are tips that can help keep you on an even keel.

Ten people have died after a Massachusetts assisted living facility caught fire Sunday night, making elderly residents rush ...