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Dr. Donovan Maust BZD prescribing to older adults continues despite decades of evidence demonstrating the risk for significant injury from both falls and OD. In the face of continued use, ...
Dr. Geoffrey Hoffman Falls remain a worrisome public threat that is growing with the aging of the US population and the recent pandemic. Risk factors are well established and numerous ...
Dr. Hoffman is a health services researcher and gerontologist. His research focuses on quality of care and Medicare policies affecting physical functioning and safety for older adults. Specific topics of interest include ...
The proposed project addresses prevention of older adult falls. Falls remain a worrisome public threat that is growing with the aging of the US population and the recent pandemic. Risk ...
Unintentional injury is a significant burden and source of premature mortality for aging Americans: in 2016, there were 53,141 deaths due to unintentional injury among adults 65 and older (“older ...
Dr. Alexander serves as the Older Adult Falls Content Lead at the U-M Injury Prevention Center. He is the Ivan Duff Collegiate Professor of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine in the ...
Although individual-level associations between injury and benzodiazepine use for older adults are well established, the effects of new coverage for benzodiazepines in 2013 on population-level injury trends in older adults ...
In our early work examining loss of balance (LOB) events in at-home activities, we found that LOBs occur nearly daily. These events occur not only in walking activities (trips, slips) ...
The significance of discharge instruction has been demonstrated when older adults are equipped with knowledge regarding self-care following hospital discharge (Bobay et al., 2010; Foust et al., 2012; Maloney & ...