An orthogeriatric collaborative intervention program for fragility fractures: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: This retrospective cohort study aims to investigate the impact of regular pre- and postoperative geriatric input into the management of geriatric patients with hip fracture, with specific interests in morbidity and mortality.

Methods: Patients with hip fracture (n = 548) older than 60 years were identified within a 2-year period. In the first year, the patients (n = 270) were managed mainly by orthopedics and this group constituted the control group.

The efficacy of a multidisciplinary falls prevention clinic with an extended step-down community program.

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of a falls prevention clinic and a community step-down program in reducing the number of falls among community-dwelling elderly at high risk of fall.

Design: Prospective cohort.

Setting: Community.

Biomechanical study of an anthropometrically designed hip protector for older chinese women.

Biomechanical properties and compliance are 2 essential properties of hip protectors (HPs) that determine their clinical efficacy. This study describes the development of a HP that was anthropometrically designed according to anthropometric data from 68 older Chinese women and with attention paid to the biomechanical properties of the device. A simulated mechanical fall test using a drop weight and a force plate were set up to test the force attenuation properties of the HP.

High-frequency whole-body vibration improves balancing ability in elderly women.

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of high-frequency whole-body vibration (WBV) on balancing ability in elderly women.

Design: Randomized controlled trial. Subjects were randomized to either the WBV intervention or the no-treatment control group.

A primary falls prevention programme for older people in Hong Kong.

This study describes the development and implementation of a large-scale primary fall and fracture prevention programme in Hong Kong and its effect on increasing the awareness and knowledge of fall and fracture prevention among older people. The effect of promotion of community participation is also investigated in the implementation of this primary prevention programme. The programme includes educational seminars, a train-the-trainers programme and a staff training programme.