More than 35 million older adults are seriously injured in falls each year and a large percentage of the victims die from their injuries, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number is expected to rise as the baby boomer generation grows older. Thurmon Lockhart, a professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools, talks about the physical and mental factors that are leading to the increases in dangerous falls and the kinds of interventions that can be taken to help make people less prone to falling and to develop techniques that could help prevent falls.