Polypharmacy and Falls-risk-increasing Drugs in Community-dwelling Older Adults

Falls frequently result from a combination of risk factors such as muscle weakness and frailty, vision and balance problems, cognitive impairment, polypharmacy, depression, and environmental hazards (4-6).Approximately 1/3 of older adults fall each year, and recurrent falls are seen in half of these the following year (5).Conditions associated with recurrent falling include a history of falling in the previous year, older age, sex,