Out of 1,527 emergency department patients ages 65 and older who suffered a head trauma associated with a ground-level fall, only about 60 percent of them followed up with their primary care physician ...

FALL RIVER — Beginning in January, every Catholic parish in the Diocese of Fall River will have to pay an assessment to the diocese to fund its central administration. The same factors that have ...

When Irene Hobbs saw a flyer hanging at the Highland Senior Center promoting an upcoming fall risk assessment screening event, it came at the right time. Two weeks earlier, the 78-year-old fell in her ...

Falls and their subsequent outcomes are serious health threats for older adults. An estimated one-third of all people age 65 years and over who live at home fall each year; over one-half to two-thirds ...

Apple is updating the built-in Health app on the iPhone with new features in iOS 15. The Health app uses a new metric called Walking Steadiness to give users a risk of falling assessment before a fall ...

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

Living Local 15 host Jessica Williams is joined by Ashley Holt, a Physical Therapist at Summit Physical Therapy, and Austin Jacoby from Summit Physical Therapy, to discuss their Don’t Fall Assessment ...

If you have ever considered making regularly scheduled changes to your training, you should try the seasonal approach. This system of training, called Seasonal Tactical Fitness Periodization, is ...

Property values through much of the Okanagan have fallen, though not everywhere is the same, according to the latest figures from the B.C. Assessment Authority.

The pandemic’s toll on Kansas children’s learning is still being determined, but early, scattered data hints at some learning loss from the pandemic, education commissioner Randy Watson told the ...