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 ...

Amid the sultry summer months, a few signs of fall become apparent, such as the appearance of school supplies on stores ...

Original Medicare (Parts A and B) covers preventive services that help evaluate a person's fall risk. Some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans may also offer coverage for fall prevention programs.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Original Medicare (parts A and B) covers preventive services to help assess your fall risk. Some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans may also cover fall prevention programs. As we age, natural ...

Fall prevention is a unique challenge in ambulatory clinic settings, but these interventions can help ensure patient safety.

The most common call the Florida Poison Information Center in Jacksonville gets involves cleaning substances. Experts say be mindful not to mix cleaning solutions.

The best skin-tag prevention products to keep them from coming back You shouldn’t remove your own skin tags at home, since that can lead to scars and infections.

The fall risk levels of the participants were then compared to the fall risk profile of the EBFPPs as identified in NCOA’s Evidence-based Falls Prevention Programs Risk Continuum Guidance for Program ...

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) recently made recommended updates to the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries (STEADI) toolkit, focusing on fall prevention initiatives in primary ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) --- Senior living community Parmer Woods at North Austin recently incorporated SafelyYou, a technology-powered fall prevention program, to reduce the fall risk of senior residents.

At the heart of Stryker’s fall prevention suite of products are ProCuity and Prime Connect—our smart bed and stretcher that are designed to do more than just keep patients comfortable.