Fall risk screening in community-dwelling older adults

Who is screened, and from what age

Fall risk screening is recommended in community-dwelling adults 65 years of age or older. It is one of the screens recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the USPSTF, and the recommendation is written by where the patient lives as well as by age: it is the community-dwelling older adult who is screened.

The neighbouring screens, each with its own age

The way to hold it is next to the screens named beside it in the same item, because each starts at its own age and the ages are what the question turns on:

• Fall risk screening: community-dwelling adults 65 years of age or older
• One-time screening for hepatitis C virus infection: adults born between 1945 and 1965
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening with ultrasonography: men 65-75 years of age who have any history of smoking
• Annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose CT: adults 55-80 years of age who have a 30-pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years

So 65 is the age for two of the four, but for the aneurysm it is men only, with a smoking history, and it stops again at 75.