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[Falls in the elderly and senior age prevention perspectives.]
E S Lapteva1, M R Tsutsunava1, G M Podoprigora1
1I.I.Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University, 41 Kirochnaya str., St. Petersburg 191015, Russian Federation,
Abstract:
The high prevalence of reported falls among elderly people whom medical care was required indicates ineffective work provided to prevent them. The purpose of this systematic review was to describe the status of the postural balance in an elderly person issue and to identify preventive interventions aimed at reducing the number of the falls in the elderly, whose effectiveness has been proven empirically. The sample included 32 studies conducted over the period from 2012 to 2018 with the participation of persons aged 55 years and older, apart from the studies involving persons with diabetes mellitus or other chronic diseases. The main areas of the study for the prevention of the falls in the elderly are the assessment of the regular physical activity role (FA), common exercises and their impact on the biological age and age-related involution of human functionality, factors that prevent FA, and motivation for FA. The studies being conducted do not take into account conditionally established groups of patients: patients with the chronic diseases, patients relatively healthy and patients with personal anxiety. The most promising studies in terms of the falls prevention in the elderly people today are the walking parameters in elderly people study, which makes it possible to predict the degree of deterioration of their mobility and the falls risk, as well as setting up the schools of psychological support in terms of social services.
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