Background: Although dizziness in elderly patients is very common in family practice, most prevalence studies on dizziness are community-based and include a study population that is not ...

They found that older adults who experience dizziness were over 60% more likely to fall in the future, even considering other factors that might have contributed to a risk of a fall.

In this study, the one-year prevalence of dizziness in family practice in patients aged 65 or older was 8.3%. In general, the prevalence was higher in women than in men, and increased with age.