Nursing home workers should consider depression as a risk factor for resident falls, authors of a new study say. Depression is already reported as an independent risk factor for falls. In fact, it can ...

Disabled elderly old man patient with walking stick fall on floor and caring young assistant at nursing home, Asian older senior man falling down on lying floor and woman nurse came to help support A ...

Falls in nursing homes can cause more than broken bones. They often signal a breakdown in care, communication, or facility standards. When older adults fall, recovery is not only physical but also ...

Among over 60,000 nursing home residents who initiated antihypertensive medication, rates of excess fractures due to falls per 100 person-years were as high as 5 among certain patient groups, such as ...