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Combinations of Risk Factors Contributing to Falls

As we take advantage of sharpening our knowledge of osteoporosis throughout the month of publicity surrounding National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, some may not realize the close connection between bladder control problems and falls.    Recently, NAFC featured as part of our six-month series of webinars (visual... Read moreChevron
posted 05/26/2010, comments (0)|
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Nighttime Toileting and Osteoporosis

Despite the significant effort in public education messages and pharmaceutical advertising, osteoporosis-linked fractures have risen dramatically over the past decade.  According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the Department of Health and Human Services, the hospitalization rate of patients admitted for treatment... Read moreChevron
posted 11/30/2009, comments (0)|
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Home Safety for the Elderly

At NAFC, we remain perennially concerned about home safety for the elderly, particularly with regards to the risk factors for falling and their consequences.  Always on the lookout for advice to pass along, I recently came across a home safety "checklist" that I'd like to share from Pamalyn Kearney , a licensed occupational therapist (OT)... Read moreChevron
posted 06/08/2009, comment (1)|
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Combating the Aging Process

While at NAFC, we have long echoed the mantra that loss of bladder or bowel control is not an automatic consequence of aging, there are some certainties we can anticipate as we age.  These include the formation of cataracts, the wearing out of joints, inflammation, and arthritis, the cumulative effects of exposure to the sun such as wrinkling... Read moreChevron
posted 05/28/2009, comments (0)|
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The Benefit of Vitamin D in Fall Prevention

I'm still trying to find remedies to prevent falls. Did I tell you why? Really? My father died from a fall. A fall he took in the bathroom trying to make it to the toilet in the middle of the night. The victim of nocturia. On a cold, tile floor. His death certificate read "severe head trauma," but the culprit was nocturia, or waking in the... Read moreChevron
posted 07/23/2008, comments (2)|
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