A brief intervention was associated with maintenance of function in fallers and reduced hospital admissions, without preventing falls post-discharge.

This postal survey of a high-risk patient group discharged from a tertiary hospital confirm the findings from other population-based and hospital-based studies that a significant proportion of patients at risk of further fracture are not investigated or offered specific treatment for osteoporosis. Lack of awareness of underlying osteoporosis by both treating clinicians and patients is likely to be a major contributing factor.

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Both tools have limited predictive ability in the ED setting.

Introduction: Occupational therapists assess older patients attending Memory