Topic
Every Healthy Aging Secrets article tagged falls — 7 pieces across 5 sections.
Strength & Mobility
The bathroom scale cannot tell the difference between losing fat and losing the tissue that keeps you out of a care home. That distinction gets more consequential every decade.
Strength & Mobility
It sounds like a party trick. It is a composite test of leg strength, hip mobility, balance and coordination — and the ability to reverse a fall is what determines whether a fall becomes a catastrophe.
Heart & Metabolic
The commonest sustained arrhythmia becomes markedly more common with age, and the decision that follows it is one of the most consistently mishandled in medicine — usually in the direction of undertreatment.
Living Well
Home hazard modification works, but only in the people who are already at high risk — and only when it is done properly rather than as a checklist of removed rugs.
Nutrition After 50
Body composition, liver metabolism and medication all change how alcohol behaves. The result is that a lifelong habit can become a problem without the amount changing at all.
Preventive Care
Painful feet change how you walk, which changes your balance, which changes your falls risk. Reduced flexibility and eyesight mean many people over 70 cannot properly inspect their own feet.
Heart & Metabolic
A drop in blood pressure on standing affects a large minority of older adults, causes falls and fainting, and is missed because blood pressure is almost always measured sitting down.
