"Why does a 30-year-old hit their foot against the curb in the parking lot and take a half step and recover, whereas a 71-year-old falls and an 82-year-old falls awkwardly and fractures their hip?" ...

Accidental falls are one of the leading causes of injury death in people over 65 worldwide, but for a long time researchers have struggled to understand just how they happen. What they do know is that ...

SWEET HOME Ore. (KPTV) - An “elderly” hiker was injured after falling about 40 feet off a cliff near the base of Sahalie Falls on Wednesday, according to the Sweet Home Fire District. At about 10:30 a ...

Elderly people are suffering concussions and other brain injuries from falls at what appear to be unprecedented rates, according to a new report from U.S. government researchers. The reason for the ...

Deaths from falls among elderly people have increased by well over two fold in the last 15 years, new research reveals. In 2016 alone, over 25,000 Americans over 75 died after falls, compared to just ...

Commonly viewed as an inevitable consequence of aging and often ignored in clinical practice, falls among the elderly were cut by 11 percent when researchers at Yale School of Medicine used a ...

NEW YORK — Elderly people are suffering concussions and other brain injuries from falls at what appear to be unprecedented rates, according to a new report from U.S. government researchers. The reason ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - "Why does a 30-year-old hit their foot against the curb in the parking lot and take a half step and recover, whereas a 71-year-old falls and an 82-year-old falls awkwardly and ...

It's not only risk factors like lower limb strength and precise perception of the limb's position that determine if a geriatric patient will recover from a perturbation, but also complex and simple ...