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At older ages, falling can have serious repercussions, often including fractured hips or arms and even fatalities (1). Victims also often suffer medical, social and health care consequences related to their falls (2). Prevention methods include assessing patients and eliminating environmental hazards which increase risk; encouraging all falls be reported even when uninjured as this allows clinicians to uncover treatable causes for falls that could prevent future ones (3). Older women tend to fall more frequently than men because