Lifestyle-based risk model for fall risk assessment

The aim of this study was to identify the explicit relationship between life-style and the risk of falling under the form of a mathematical model. Starting from some personal and behavioral information of a subject as, e.g., weight, height, age, data about physical activity habits, and concern about falling, the model would estimate the score of her/his Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems (Mini-BES) test. This score ranges within 0 and 28, and the lower its value the more likely the subject is prone to falling [1]. This would make fall risk assessment much easier, because subjects would not need to undergo the classical Mini-BES test, rather they could estimate it at home by answering some questionnaires.