Audiologists should not fail with falls: A call to commit to prevention of falls in older adults

Globally, falls are a serious economic and public health concern. While all age groups are impacted by falls, the threats to morbidity and mortality are most severe in older adults. Recent literature has linked hearing loss, and related issues such as an increase in sedentary behaviour, to a greater...

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Autor principal: Rogers, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2021
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Opinion Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34636596
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v68i1.841
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description Globally, falls are a serious economic and public health concern. While all age groups are impacted by falls, the threats to morbidity and mortality are most severe in older adults. Recent literature has linked hearing loss, and related issues such as an increase in sedentary behaviour, to a greater risk of falls. Therefore, this opinion article aims to raise audiologists’ awareness of falls in ageing patients or clients, and calls for change in terms of having these rehabilitation professionals embrace identification and management of fall risk.
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spelling pubmed-85177362021-10-21 Audiologists should not fail with falls: A call to commit to prevention of falls in older adults Rogers, Christine S Afr J Commun Disord Opinion Paper Globally, falls are a serious economic and public health concern. While all age groups are impacted by falls, the threats to morbidity and mortality are most severe in older adults. Recent literature has linked hearing loss, and related issues such as an increase in sedentary behaviour, to a greater risk of falls. Therefore, this opinion article aims to raise audiologists’ awareness of falls in ageing patients or clients, and calls for change in terms of having these rehabilitation professionals embrace identification and management of fall risk. AOSIS 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8517736/ /pubmed/34636596 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v68i1.841 Text en © 2021. The Author https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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title Audiologists should not fail with falls: A call to commit to prevention of falls in older adults
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title_fullStr Audiologists should not fail with falls: A call to commit to prevention of falls in older adults
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title_short Audiologists should not fail with falls: A call to commit to prevention of falls in older adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517736/
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