Fall Risk Assessment: What It Is and Why It Matters
Quick Summary A fall risk assessment is a short, structured check of how likely you are to fall, paired with a plan to lower that risk. The standard framework for this is the CDC’s STEADI Algorithm,1,2 which moves through three steps: a quick screen, a closer look at...
Fall Risk Assessment: What It Is and Why It Matters
Quick Summary A fall risk assessment is a short, structured check of how likely you are to fall, paired with a plan to...
Life Expectancy After a Fall: What Families Need to Know
Quick Summary Most falls in older adults do not lead to serious harm, and many seniors return to full, active lives...
How to Fall Safely: Techniques That Can Reduce Injury
Quick Summary Most fall-prevention advice focuses on not falling. This guide covers the other half of the problem:...
What It Means When an Elderly Parent Keeps Falling: A Conversation with Theora Care Founder Steve Popovich
Long before the fall that breaks a hip, there are bruises nobody can explain and a daily routine that has quietly...
Smart Watches for Seniors with Fall Detection: What Actually Works
Quick Answer A smart watch with fall detection senses a hard fall and calls for help without you pressing anything....
Suddenly Falling While Walking: What Causes Unexplained Falls in Seniors
Quick Answer Estimates of how many older adults fall each year range from about one in four to at least one in three,...
“Falls Are Not an Inevitable Part of Aging”: A Conversation with Social Gerontologist Dr. Marcia Ory
One of the country’s leading fall-prevention researchers on the exercises that work at any age, the medications that...
“Give Yourself Grace”: A Conversation with Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD
A clinical psychologist who spent seven years caring for his own mother and stepfather explains why guilt makes...
“We Use Vision Like Radar”: A Conversation with Falls Researcher Scientia Professor Stephen Lord
The falls researcher behind the Physiological Profile Assessment on the two vision tests most eye exams skip, why...
How AI Fall Detection Actually Works: A Conversation with Theora Care Founder Steve Popovich
Steve Popovich builds AI fall detection for a living and thinks the term is badly overused. He explains what families...
