Anxiety May Make Falls More Likely - NYTimes.com

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Of course older people worry, legitimately, about falling. But can exaggerated anxiety about falling — even if physiological tests show your risk to be low — increase the probability that you’ll actually fall?

A team at Neuroscience Research Australia has found that it can. Conversely, older people who are physically at high risk, but don’t perceive much danger, fall less often than would be expected.
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