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Identification of older people most at risk of falling may facilitate early preventative intervention to reduce the likelihood of falls occurring. While many clinical fall risk assessment techniques exist, they often require subjective assessor interpretation, or are not appropriate for unsupervised screening of larger populations owing to a number of issues including safety, ability to reliably perform...
In developed countries, chronic disease now accounts for more than 75% of health care expenditure and nearly an equivalent percentage of disease-related deaths. The burden of chronic disease (often, but not exclusively, associated with ageing) includes congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypertension and diabetes. Over the past several decades there has been...
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