Frailty syndrome and risks for falling in the elderly community.

Purpose: To identify the prevalence of Frailty Syndrome in the elderly and the relationship with risk of falling.

Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional, and analytical clinical study. One hundred and one volunteers over 60 years old were submitted to audiological evaluation, Dynamic Gait Index - Brazilian brief (DGI), Timed Up and Go (TUG) and Edmonton Fragility Scale (EFE) that verified, respectively, hearing thresholds, frailty syndrome, functional and dynamic balance, and risk of falling.

Speech therapy´s intervention for falling prevention in aging.

Purpose: to verify the effectiveness of a Speech Therapy intervention program to decrease the risk of falls in elderly people.

Methods: Exploratory and intervention study where upon 148 volunteers from community, both genders, with an average of 68.6(± 6.