This website in German supports health care professionals in assembling a falls prevention exercise progr ...
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Falls Prevention Exercise Program based on Test Results (German)
Falls Prevention Exercise Program based on Test Results (German)
This website in German supports health care professionals in assembling a falls prevention exercise program for older people based on the results of some functional tests performed earlier. The exerci ...
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Three simple Assessment Tests to assess the Patient’s Risk for Falling
Three simple Assessment Tests to assess the Patient’s Risk for Falling
Researchers at CDC’s Injury Center have created the STEADI Tool Kit expressly for health care providers w ...
Researchers at CDC’s Injury Center have created the STEADI Tool Kit expressly for health care providers who treat older adults who are at risk of falling or who may have fallen in the past. The websit ...
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Centre of expertise for Falls and Fracture prevention – Flanders (Belgium)
(Expertisecentrum Val- en fractuurpreventie Vlaanderen, EVV)Centre of expertise for Falls and Fracture prevention – Flanders (Belgium)
(Expertisecentrum Val- en fractuurpreventie Vlaanderen, EVV)This Flemish website provides information about prevention of falls and fractures in Flanders: VALPREVENT ...
This Flemish website provides information about prevention of falls and fractures in Flanders: VALPREVENTIE.be. Here you can find information about prevention of falls and fractures for community-dwel ...
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Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum (English)
Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum (English)
The Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum is an evidence based course for heatlh care professionals and co ...
The Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum is an evidence based course for heatlh care professionals and community leaders on how to design, implement and evaluate a fall prevention program. The course ...
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Risk assessment tool (Swedish)
Risk assessment tool (Swedish)
This is a risk assessment tool in Swedish. It includes the Modified Norton scale, Mini Nutritional Assess ...
This is a risk assessment tool in Swedish. It includes the Modified Norton scale, Mini Nutritional Assessment and Downton Fall Risk Index. It can be downloaded here. ...
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Envejcimiento saludable : actividad física (Spanish)
Envejcimiento saludable : actividad física (Spanish)
This is a website that has general physical activity and fall prevention recommendations for community dw ...
This is a website that has general physical activity and fall prevention recommendations for community dwelling elderly. The recommendations are published by Institut de l'Envelliment and Fundació Agr ...
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Envelliment saludable: activitat física (Catalan)
Envelliment saludable: activitat física (Catalan)
This is a website that has general physical activity and fall prevention recommendations for community dw ...
This is a website that has general physical activity and fall prevention recommendations for community dwelling elderly. The recommendations are published by Institut de l'Envelliment and Fundació Agr ...
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Preventing falls – online awareness (Greek)
Preventing falls – online awareness (Greek)
This is an online article by the Greek portal Healthpress, powered by the Μedical Association of Athens a ...
This is an online article by the Greek portal Healthpress, powered by the Μedical Association of Athens and the Pharmacists Association of Athens. The article refers to a 'Magic Carpet' which prevents ...
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Antidepressants causing falls – online professional awareness (Greek)
Antidepressants causing falls – online professional awareness (Greek)
This is an online article by the Greek portal Iatronet, concerning health, preventive medicine, nutrition ...
This is an online article by the Greek portal Iatronet, concerning health, preventive medicine, nutrition, fitness and beauty. The article is a translation from the "British Journal of Clinical Pharma ...
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Nutrition and elderly (Greek)
Nutrition and elderly (Greek)
This is an online article by the Greek portal Healthyliving. The article is about nutrition and elderly p ...
This is an online article by the Greek portal Healthyliving. The article is about nutrition and elderly people. Factors affecting the diet of the elderly people are mentioned and problems that may be ...
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Fear of falling (Greek)
Fear of falling (Greek)
This is an online article by the Greek portal Myhealthnews. The article refers to the fact that the fear ...
This is an online article by the Greek portal Myhealthnews. The article refers to the fact that the fear of falling may actually increase the risk of falls in the elderly. To visit the website follow ...
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Balance exercise and falls prevention – professionals (Greek)
Balance exercise and falls prevention – professionals (Greek)
This is an online article by mednutrition, the first portal in Greece and Cyprus concerning nutrition. Th ...
This is an online article by mednutrition, the first portal in Greece and Cyprus concerning nutrition. The article, written by a Professor on physical education, describes balance exercises for elderl ...
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