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Falls

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Falls are a common occurrence among older adults and considered a symptom of frailty. The prevalence increases with age and the consequences can be devastating. Most falls have multifactorial causes; thus, fall prevention requires multifactorial fall risk assessment as well as multifactorial interventions. With the ever-increasing population of older adults, fall prevention is a crucial issue, both for the individual and the society.

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  1. University Center for Medicine of Ageing, Felix Platter Hospital, Burgfelderstrasse 101, 4002, Basel, Switzerland

    Reto W. Kressig & Stephanie A. Bridenbaugh

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Regina Roller-Wirnsberger

  2. Institute for Biomedicine of Ageing Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Katrin Singler

  3. Ageing Clinical Research Department Medicine II, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Maria Cristina Polidori

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Kressig, R.W., Bridenbaugh, S.A. (2018). Falls. In: Roller-Wirnsberger, R., Singler, K., Polidori, M. (eds) Learning Geriatric Medicine. Practical Issues in Geriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61997-2_9

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