… and balance. 32 Health care providers play a crucial role in fall prevention by screening
older adults for fall risk, reviewing and managing medications linked to falls, and recommending …

Falls in the elderly are an increasing problem causing a high degree of morbidity, mortality,
and use of health care services. Identification of risk factors through medical assessment …

… ) fall reduction programmes have involved systematic fall risk … Gait and balance problems
have many aetiologies, and … Readily identifiable gait problems adversely affect function in 20…

… assessment of balance can identify future fall risk even after the adjustment for other factors
related to an increased fall risk. Measurement scales that involve a difficult balance task (eg, …

… falls, and assess the health impact (HRQOL and mortality) of falls and balance or walking
problems… of disease associated with falls and balance or walking problems by estimating their …

… balance impairments. Its purpose was to assess the feasibility of recruiting older adults with
possible balance problems … of several widely used balance instruments for future studies of …

… to falls because cancer-related sequelae affect virtually all body systems. The use of a history
of falls, gait speed, and balance tests to assess fall risks … falls, gait, and balance with falls in …

… in the association of balance impairment on fall risk in community-dwelling older adults;
and (3) to identify clinical measurement tools of balance associated with an elevated fall risk. …

… risk factors that would explain their propensity for falls. Instead, they may have several smaller
scale problems … some of the reasons for falls and why falls are related to balance deficits. …

… measures to prevent falls and the risk of morbidity … risk of falls have also an increased
postural balance deficit quantified by means of a force platform during a one-leg stance balance …