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Walking Aids for Older Adults: Review of End-User Needs

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  • Nazanin Mansouri
  • Khaled Goher

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Aged population of senior citizens is growing noticeably at different regions in the world. Consequently, there are great numbers of demands for healthcare services. One of the services is assistive walking devices which have important role in mobility, stability, walking, and independency of older adults. Although various type of walking devices are available for older adults, yet fall incidents with severe injuries take place. Therefore, it is critical to analyze fall incidents, find out fall factors, and assess walking devices to minimize fall. This paper mainly focuses on risk factors of fall, considerable role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in walking devices, and also analyzes fall incidents with the purpose of understanding how fall incidents take place. This paper assists to have a clear understanding about fall incidents and its associated injuries.peration and its successful implementation will be the guarantor of justice and prevent impunity and escape the Probable criminals and suspects to countries far away from the crime scene. In the last two centuries globally in many countries have enacted expanded domestic law in the area of extradition to many extradition treaties and international conventions in this field has joined. Palermo Convention, including the most recent documents that contain comprehensive provisions on extradition and numerous countries has come to join in. In Iran in 1960 Legislator comprehensive and modern law in the area of extradition imposed And many international laws in this area has been invoked and respected. So, we gathered to view the article Ferraro circuit analysis on the world of law and the Palermo Convention and international law in the field of extradition elaborated on. The present article deals with these issues on two separate levels.

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  • Nazanin Mansouri & Khaled Goher, 2016. "Walking Aids for Older Adults: Review of End-User Needs," Asian Social Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(12), pages 109-109, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:assjnl:v:12:y:2016:i:12:p:109
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    1. Maria Gabriella Melchiorre & Barbara D’Amen & Sabrina Quattrini & Giovanni Lamura & Marco Socci, 2022. "Health Emergencies, Falls, and Use of Communication Technologies by Older People with Functional and Social Frailty: Ageing in Place in Deprived Areas of Italy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-23, November.
    2. Stephane Lopes & Lúcia Filipe & Rosana Silva & Arménio Cruz & Pedro Parreira & Filipa Couto & Rafael Bernardes & João Apóstolo & Luís Roseiro & Cândida Malça, 2019. "An Innovative Concept for a Walker with a Self-Locking Mechanism Using a Single Mechanical Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(10), pages 1-12, May.

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