Targeted risk factors included: unsafe footwear, poor vision, lack of exercise, poor balance, inadequate management of medications and chronic health-related conditions, unsafe home environments and unsafe external environments.
Falls result from an interaction between environmental hazards and inadequate physiology to cope with the hazards, such as gait problems, poor vision, impaired peripheral sensation and lower limb strength, dizziness, and the use of psychotropic medication or polypharmacy [ 14, 15].
But inadequate color vision can block people from being pilots and from getting jobs in certain areas of law enforcement, the military and transportation.
The poet Adrienne Rich caught that power with "as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.... Our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative".
Written by two senior field commanders, the reports observed that, among other things, a third of the radios issued in Kosovo did not work, the standard infantry rifle was unreliable and there was inadequate night-vision equipment.
In other words, Ammann, a great mind in his field at the time, foresaw that the bridge might someday become inadequate, but his vision went only horizontally.
For eye diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy, inadequate access to vision care, i.e., assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, results in delayed diagnosis, and unnecessary increases in burden of disease, disability and costs [ 1- 3].
Phyllis from Goshen, Indiana writes: "The overused metaphor of a war is woefully inadequate to stimulate the vision necessary to address poverty and its companions.
