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BMC geriatrics

Journal Volume: 22
Journal Issue: 1
Journal Year: 2022
Articles in SafetyLit: 100

Abusive episodes among home-dwelling persons with dementia and their informal caregivers: a cross-sectional Norwegian study

Agreement between standard and self-reported assessments of physical frailty syndrome and its components in a registry of community-dwelling older adults

Assessing the scalability of an integrated falls prevention service for community-dwelling older people: a mixed methods study

Association between daily activities and fall in older adults: an analysis of longitudinal ageing study in India (2017-18)

Association between falls in elderly and the number of chronic diseases and health-related behaviors based on CHARLS 2018: health status as a mediating variable

Association between using social media WeChat and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older people: findings from a national survey

Association between usual alcohol consumption and risk of falls in middle-aged and older Chinese adults

Association of socioeconomic status measures with physical activity and subsequent frailty in older adults

Associations of multicomponent exercise and aspects of physical performance with frailty trajectory in older adults

Balance recovery stepping responses during walking were not affected by a concurrent cognitive task among older adults

Barefoot walking is more stable in the gait of balance recovery in older adults

Can frailty in conjunction with FRAX identify additional women at risk of fracture - a longitudinal cohort study of community dwelling older women

Care and support networks of community-dwelling frail individuals in North West London: a comparison of patient and healthcare workers' perceptions

Characteristics of step responses following varying magnitudes of unexpected lateral perturbations during standing among older people - a cross-sectional laboratory-based study

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a personalised health promotion intervention enabling independence in older people with mild frailty ('HomeHealth') compared to treatment as usual: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Coding quality of deaths and its impact on elderly unintentional fall mortality data from 1990 to 2019: a retrospective analysis of the WHO Mortality Database

Combined effects of virtual reality techniques and motor imagery on balance, motor function and activities of daily living in patients with Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled trial

Comparison of factors influencing fall recurrence in the young-old and old-old: a cross-sectional nationwide study in South Korea

Correction to: Pilot comparative effectiveness study of surface perturbation treadmill training to prevent falls in older adults

Correction to: sexual violence in older adults: a Belgian prevalence study

Correction: External validation of a new predictive model for falls among inpatients using the official Japanese ADL scale, Bedriddenness ranks: a double-centered prospective cohort study

Correction: Predicting falls in older adults: an umbrella review of instruments assessing gait, balance, and functional mobility

Correction: Prevention of hip fractures in older adults residing in long-term care facilities with a hip airbag: a retrospective pilot study

Correlation analysis of physical fitness and its impact on falls in 2130 community- dwelling older adults: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Taiwan Chinese version of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International for community-dwelling elderly individuals

Detecting disabilities in everyday life: evidence from a geriatric assessment

Development of a behavioural framework for dementia care partners' fall risk management

Effect of a multicomponent exercise program and cognitive stimulation (VIVIFRAIL-COGN) on falls in frail community older persons with high risk of falls: study protocol for a randomized multicenter control trial

Effectiveness of workshops to teach a home-based exercise program (BEST at Home) for preventing falls in community-dwelling people aged 65 years and over: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

Effects of neighborhood features on healthy aging in place: the composition and context of urban parks and traditional local coffeeshops in Singapore

Effects of teach-back health education (TBHE) based on WeChat mini-programs in preventing falls at home for urban older adults in China: a randomized controlled trial

Efficacy and safety of Z-substances in the management of insomnia in older adults: a systematic review for the development of recommendations to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing

Elder abuse and life-course victimization in hospitalized older adults in Sweden: prevalence and associations with mental ill-health

Elder abuse in the COVID-19 era based on calls to the National Center on Elder Abuse resource line

Evaluating the discriminatory power of the velocity field diagram and timed-up-and-go test in determining the fall status of community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional observational study

Evaluation of away-from-home excursion patterns after falling among individuals with glaucoma: a longitudinal study

Evaluation of the durable effects of corrective exercises on the postural alignment and stability in hyperkyphotic elderly with a history of falls

Experiences of elder abuse: a qualitative study among victims in Sweden

Factors influencing fear of falling in community-dwelling older adults in Singapore: a cross-sectional study

Fall determinants in hospitalised older patients: a nested case control design - incidence, extrinsic and intrinsic risk in Malaysia

Falls, healthcare resources and costs in older adults with insomnia treated with zolpidem, trazodone, or benzodiazepines

Fear of falling as a potential complication of Ramsay Hunt syndrome in older adults: a case report

Feasibility of performance-based and self-reported outcomes in self-managed falls prevention exercise interventions for independent older adults living in the community

Foreign allometric exponents adequately normalize isokinetic knee extension strength to identify muscle weakness and mobility limitation in Portuguese older adults: a cross-sectional study

HIP Fracture REhabilitation Program for older adults with hip fracture (HIP-REP) based on activity of daily living: a feasibility study

How accurate are geriatricians' fall predictions?

How different are objective operationalizations of walkability for older adults compared to the general population? A systematic review

Impact of a personalised care plan for the elderly calling emergency medical services after a fall at home: the RISING-DOM multi-centre randomised controlled trial protocol

Impact of the Canadian CT head rule supplemented by the original published minimum inclusion criteria to assist emergency department clinicians' assessment of patients presenting post fall from residential aged care: a retrospective audit

Improved outcomes and reduced medical costs through multidisciplinary co-management protocol for geriatric proximal femur fractures: a one-year retrospective study

Incidence and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries among older inpatients at a tertiary grade a hospital in Shandong province from 2018 to 2020

Incidence of falls and fall-related injuries and their predictive factors in frail older persons with cancer: a multicenter study

Individual Pharmacotherapy Management (IPM) - I: a group-matched retrospective controlled clinical study on prevention of complicating delirium in the elderly trauma patients and identification of associated factors

Injuries from falls by older adults in long-term care captured on video: prevalence of impacts and injuries to body parts

Is multimorbidity associated with higher risk of falls among older adults in India?

Lifelong versus not lifelong death wishes in older adults without severe illness: a cross-sectional survey

Lower extremity joint compensatory effects during the first recovery step following slipping and stumbling perturbations in young and older subjects

Machine learning models for identifying pre-frailty in community dwelling older adults

Measuring demand and supply of community care services for older people healthy ageing in rural Zhejiang Province

Performance of the SarQoL quality of life tool in a UK population of older people with probable sarcopenia and implications for use in clinical trials: findings from the SarcNet registry

Physical activity as a risk or protective factor for falls and fall-related fractures in non-frail and frail older adults: a longitudinal study

Physical performance in older age by sex and educational level: the HUNT Study

Physical performance reference values for Japanese oldest old: a SONIC study

Predicting falls in older adults: an umbrella review of instruments assessing gait, balance, and functional mobility

Prediction models for functional status in community dwelling older adults: a systematic review

Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication

Prescription characteristics associated with fall-related injury risk among older adults prescribed benzodiazepines: a cohort study

Prevalence of medical factors related to aging among older car drivers: a multicenter, cross-sectional, descriptive study

Prevention of hip fractures in older adults residing in long-term care facilities with a hip airbag: a retrospective pilot study

Psychosocial factors related to physical activity in frail and prefrail elderly people

Random forest algorithms to classify frailty and falling history in seniors using plantar pressure measurement insoles: a large-scale feasibility study

Reference values of gait characteristics in community-dwelling older persons with different physical functional levels

Regional differences regarding the occurrence of falls and associated factors in two populations of Brazilian longevous people

Reliability and validity of the fall risk self-assessment scale for community-dwelling older people in China: a pilot study

Sentinel fall presenting to the emergency department (SeFallED) - protocol of a complex study including long-term observation of functional trajectories after a fall, exploration of specific fall risk factors, and patients' views on falls prevention

Staff-to-resident abuse in nursing homes: a scoping review

Strong evidence for age as the single most dominant predictor of medically supervised driving test-mini mental status test outcomes provide only weak but significant moderate additional predictive value

Study protocol for 'the effects of multimodal training of cognitive and/or physical functions on cognition and physical fitness of older adults: a cluster randomized controlled trial'

Suicidal and accidental drug poisoning mortality among older adults and working-age individuals in Spain between 2000 and 2018

Suicidal ideation and its related factors among older adults: a population-based study in Southwestern Iran

Symptoms of anxiety and depression predicting fall-related outcomes among older Americans: a longitudinal study

The association between fear of falling and occurrence of falls: a one-year cohort study

The association of cardio-metabolic risk factors and history of falling in men with osteosarcopenia: a cross-sectional analysis of Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program

The effect of the inclusion of trunk-strengthening exercises to a multimodal exercise program on physical activity levels and psychological functioning in older adults: secondary data analysis of a randomized controlled trial

The effects of vitamin D supplementation on frailty in older adults at risk for falls

The identification and prediction of frailty based on Bayesian network analysis in a community-dwelling older population

The impact of a history of child abuse on cognitive performance: a cross-sectional study in older patients with a depressive, anxiety, or somatic symptom disorder

The Otago Exercise Program compared to falls prevention education in Zuni elders: a randomized controlled trial

The reliability, functional quality, understandability, and actionability of fall prevention content in YouTube: an observational study

The revictimization of older Mexican women: understanding the accumulation of multiple victimizations throughout a lifetime

The SAFEST review: a mixed methods systematic review of shock-absorbing flooring for fall-related injury prevention

The use and predictive performance of the Peninsula Health Falls Risk Assessment Tool (PH-FRAT) in 25 residential aged care facilities: a retrospective cohort study using routinely collected data

The use of predictive fall models for older adults receiving aged care, using routinely collected electronic health record data: a systematic review

Therapy options for those affected by a long lie after a fall: a scoping review

Trajectories of mobility difficulty and falls in community-dwelling adults aged 50 + in Taiwan from 2003 to 2015

Transient versus stable nature of fear of falling over 24 months in community-older persons with falls- data of the EU SCOPE project on kidney function

Use of potentially driver-impairing drugs among older drivers

Violence against caregivers of older adults with chronic diseases is associated with caregiver burden and depression: a cross-sectional study

Visual risk factors for falls in older adults: a case-control study

Why twin studies are important for health span science research: the case of maltreatment of aging adults