Quick Answer A smart watch with fall detection senses a hard fall and calls for help without you pressing anything. What separates the options is not whether they detect falls. It is who answers. Consumer smartwatches dial emergency services or text your contacts. A...

Quick Answer Estimates of how many older adults fall each year range from about one in four to at least one in three, depending on the study. Most of those falls have a cause you can see. Someone trips, slips, or misses a step. But a meaningful share happen with no...

One of the country’s leading fall-prevention researchers on the exercises that work at any age, the medications that quietly raise risk, how to choose the right technology, and why fear of falling is itself a danger. Key Takeaways Falls are not an inevitable part of...