Older Adult Falls
Preventing falls is an important piece of caring for an aging population. At the Penn Injury Science Center, our Scholars are working with cutting edge “smart home” solutions for aging, assessing the potential of wearable devices or digitally augmented residential settings to facilitate passive monitoring and support independence and quality of life for older adults. A critical component of this work is understanding and adapting solutions to privacy concerns and perceived intrusiveness that accompanies these types of technology.
Projects
Publications & News
Toolkits
Remembering When – a toolkit for establishing a community-engaged network for falls prevention referall from the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of Iowa
Keep on Your Feet – a collection of resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the MyMobility Plan
Briefs
Older Adult Fall Prevention – an issue brief from the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Our Experts
George Demiris, PhD, FACMI
PIK (Penn Integrates Knowledge) University Professor
Department of Biobehavioral and Health Sciences, School of Nursing & Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Therese Richmond, PhD, RN, FAAN
Research Core Director
Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
Andrea Schneider, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology, Division of Neurocritical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing
School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
Elinore Kaufman, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Medical Director, Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program