Since january 1st of this year, people over 65 years old had a fall in Europe, sometimes with serious consequences.
Since january 1st of this year, people over 65 years old had a fall in Europe, sometimes with serious consequences.
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A fall can be regarded as an insignificant accident: your foot gets stuck under the rug, you did not see there was a step, you slipped on the wet floor, etc. Fortunately, they often don't have any consequences and are quickly forgotten. However, as people get older, falls become more likely to...
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation unit at the hospital in Poitiers has created a mobile unit for the prevention of falls among seniors. It includes physicians (re-educators and geriatricians) and physiotherapists. Its purpose is to improve knowledge in the specific field of falls among the...
How can falls be prevented? What should we do when a fall occurs? If these questions concern you or one of your family members, the following pages will provide you with the answers. Taking care of yourself: general advice to prevent falls. Of course, the pages on prevention are useful for tips...
A fall can be a brutal and fortuitous event in relation with an intercurrent factor, but can also be the symptom of an illness (see the chapter on causes of falls). In both cases, repeated falls mean that their cause (extrinsic factor or causal illness) is still present. A medical history of...
Regardless of our age or physical capacities, our balance can be upset when moving about at home for numerous reasons. Depending on our capacities and the context of the moment, two situations can arise: either we avoid the fall or we do not succeed in restoring our balance. At home, falls are more...
February 4th 2010, the Quebecois Minister responsible for the Elders, Marguerite Blais, inaugurated the opening of a PAIR program agency to Montmagny-L’Islet (France). Sometimes alone and isolated, an old person needs to be able to count on the help of someone else after a fall. In Quebec a...
Everyone has had at least one fall in their lives, whether during childhood when learning how to walk or more occasionally during adult life. We know that we have developed avoidance and protective reactions which make it possible to reduce their consequences in most instances. On the...
- A table on casters: it can be a solution to move plates and dishes between the kitchen and the dining room. However, it must not be diverted from its original use: do not support yourself on it to walk. Also verify that the floor lends itself to it (no difference in level, floor covering is in...
Geneviève Laroque is President of the French National Foundation for Gerontology (Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie), a national level resource center on questions relating to aging, that was founded in 1967 by her cousin, Pierre Laroque, the founding father of France's Social...
