An examination on physical frailty and falling risk

Abstract

As the risk of falling is a important matter to prevate for the elderly comeing to a day service, cuntinuous study have been done.Toe gap test(right and left),Time up and go test,Functional reach test was picked up as a checking parameter for the prevation against falling. This time,physical frailty and the risk of falling is studied.The subjects are 22 who use our day services at least one year.They are divided into ones who have not falled during a year and ones who have falled.The center value of each parameter was followings;Toe gap test(right)of non-falling:2.35kg and of falling:1.40kg, Toe gap test(left)of non-falling: 2.19kg and of falling:1.47kg, Time up and go test of non-falling:12.09sec and of falling:17.24 sec, Functional reach test of non-falling:21.26cm and of falling:19.94cm, respectively. Toe gap test and Time up and go test seems to be convinient parameters to prevent against falling risk.