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Elderly risk falls with enhanced vision
Elderly risk falls with enhanced vision

The risk of elderly people falling may be increased if they are helped to see more clearly.

An Australian study of more than 600 people has found that people aged over 70 who received new glasses or underwent corrective surgery were 57 per cent more likely to fall than those who did not receive treatment to enhance their vision.

Researchers from Sydney's Concord Hospital, who conducted the study, say the unexpected findings suggest programs which aim to prevent falls among the elderly by improving their vision should be put on hold, The Australian reports.

One explanation for the findings is that the study participants needed a long time to adjust to new glasses, Professor of epidemiology and geriatric medicine at Concord Hospital, Robert Cumming said.

"New glasses were the most common intervention in the study and many of the subjects who received new eye glasses had major changes in their prescription," Professor Cumming writes in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society which published the result.

Professor Cumming said it may be premature to implement vision-related interventions to prevent falls.

The findings need to be confirmed by other researchers, the News Limited newspaper reports.

In the meantime doctors need to prescribe more conservatively and advise patients to be cautious during adaptation to new eye glasses, Professor Cumming said.

Posted by AU Network on March 14 2007 13:38:59 378 Reads · Print
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Agnes Water often called Agnes Waters and it is common for Lady Musgrave Island to be called Lady Musgrove Island and Captain Cook to Captian Cook and Capitan Cook or Captan Cook, with the Town of Seventeen Seventy now known as 1770 that would be hard to misspell for anyone. The correct spelling of Bundaburg Queensland, is Bundaberg.

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