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This failure is generally due to factors intrinsic to the individual, such as loss of sensory function, impaired central processing, and muscle weakness.

The second phase of a fall involves a failure of the systems for maintaining upright posture to detect and correct this displacement in time to avoid a fall. Initiating events involve extrinsic factors such as environmental hazards intrinsic factors such as unstable joints, muscle weakness, and unreliable postural reflexes and physical activities in progress at the time of the fall. The first phase is an initiating event that displaces the body's center of mass beyond its base of support. 56 Falls can be described in terms of three phases. Current understanding of the etiology of postural instability and falling is limited, and there is little information about the effectiveness of interventions to prevent falls.Ī fall is an unintentional event that results in the person coming to rest on the ground or another lower level. Elderly individuals with multiple health impairments are at greatest risk, but many healthy older persons also fall each year. Intrinsic risk factors for falls have been found in controlled studies, which allow the identification of those at risk and suggest potential preventive interventions. Prevention of falls must span the spectrum of ages and health states within the older population and address the diversity of causes of falls without unnecessarily compromising quality of life and independence. Most injuries in the elderly are the result of falls fractures of the hip, forearm, humerus, and pelvis usually result from the combined effect of falls and osteoporosis. Falls in turn diminish function by causing injury, activity limitations, fear of falling, and loss of mobility.

Falls are a marker of frailty, immobility, and acute and chronic health impairment in older persons.

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