ArticleInnovation in aging2023
Living Alone, Environmental Hazards, and Falls Among U.S. Older Adults.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Outdoor Environmental Risk Factors for Falls and Fear of Falling: A Systematic Review.The Gerontologist · 2025Pooled it
- Association between fall location and postoperative clinical outcomes after fragility hip fracture: a multicentre cohort study.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- Home hazards and household clustering of falls among older adults in Türkiye: a multilevel analysis.European geriatric medicine · 2026Article
- Age-Related Differences in Joint Kinematics and Spatiotemporal Parameters During Ramp Walking and Level Walking: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Deprivation indices and their association with fragility fractures and bone density: evidence from a large observational cohort.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2026Observational
- Health and Functioning of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Urban and Rural Areas of Portugal-What Are the Implications for Physiotherapy Care?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Relationship between social network characteristics and falls among older adults living alone: an analysis using Zero-inflated negative binomial regression.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Performance Analysis of Data Augmentation Approaches for Improving Wrist-Based Fall Detection System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unveiling Fall Triggers in Older Adults: A Machine Learning Graphical Model Analysis.Mathematics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Home Environmental Factors Associated with Falls Among Elderly in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Regional differences in the Association of Healthy Aging with the incidence of falls: an analysis based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study from 2011 to 2020.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Analysis of health risk factors for older adults living alone in China and establishment and evaluation of a nomogram prediction model.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Balance Impairment in the Burn Population: A Burn Model System National Database Study.European burn journal · 2024Article
- Housing Environmental Factors Driving Falls Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A National Cohort Study.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: Physical conditions of living environments can affect the incidence of falls; however, prior work has focused typically on 1 domain at a time-either neighborhood or home, capturing limited environmental boundaries of older adults. We examined how neighborhood together with the home environment affect the incidence of falls over time and whether living arrangement modifies the influence of the environmental risks on falls. Research Design and Methods: Using the 2012-2020 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; Results: Neighborhood and housing environment were independently associated with the odds of falls net of demographic characteristics and preexisting health conditions, and effects were significant for people living alone only. The presence of green space and poorly maintained stairways were associated with greater odds of falling, net of covariates during 8 years of follow-up (odds ratios = 2.10 and 2.65, Discussion and Implications: Falls in old age may be determined in part by a combination of outdoor and indoor risk factors. More research is needed to understand pathways that lead to greater vulnerability among older adults living alone to environmental hazards.
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