Medicare covers fall risk assessments during routine preventive visits for beneficiaries enrolled in Part B. If you have a history of recent falls or issues with walking and balance, you may be a ...

Maple Tree Cancer Alliance was awarded a grant research grant to look at an often-overlooked risk in cancer care: falls among ...

A review that examined fall risk assessment tools for hospitalized older adults was somewhat inconclusive. Because of data limitations in the studies assessed, it was not clear which tools work best.

The smartphone app used data from a questionnaire and balance tests to give users an intuitive fall risk score ranging between 0 and 100, indicating low, medium, or high fall risk. A smartphone app ...

As of January 1, 2026, the CMS MDS 3.0 Quality Measures User’s Manual v18.0 introduced expanded definitions of falls, ...

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Falling becomes more common as you get older, and has more serious health risks. However, you can lower your fall risk with a ...

A new tool to identify patients most at risk of serious falls has been developed by researchers at the University of Oxford. The team said the tool "could have a big impact on the way older patients ...

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