Project

Personalized fall prevention

Falls are among the biggest risks to self-employment and quality of life in old age. The project for personalized prevention in old age shows how targeted early detection and individually tailored training offers can maintain mobility and effectively prevent falls.

The focus is on setting up a Center for Healthy Ageing (ZeGA) at Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart as a specialized point of contact for older people with an increased risk of falling and mobility. The basis is a structured approach consisting of self-assessment, medical and physiotherapeutic diagnostics and individual advice. On this basis, personal risk is assessed and a tailor-made package of measures is put together.

Personalized prevention with a system

The offer combines scientifically evidence-based training approaches including strength, balance and reaction training, which can be used flexibly as a modular system — on site, at home or supported by digital applications. The patient journey presented in the accompanying diagram shows how prevention is implemented in a structured, low-threshold and at the same time medically sound.

The aim is to strengthen the mobility and independence of older people in the long term, to prevent falls and to maintain the quality of life. At the same time, the center serves as a model project for future-oriented preventive medicine, whose concepts and digital tools can also be transferred to other regions.

Prevention