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Falls are common events in older people, with physical and psychological consequences, reducing the quality of life and increasing healthcare costs. At the same time, falls are preventable even through public health strategies. In this exercise-related experience, a team of experts identified effective, sustainable, and transferable fall prevention interventions and created an intervention manual through a co-creation process using the Ipest model. The Ipest model involves the engagement of stakeholders at different levels to produce supporting tools for healthcare professionals, based on scientific evidence, economically sustainable, and transferable to different contexts and/or populations with minimal adaptations.

Carney's triad is a rare syndrome characterized by gastric leiomyosarcoma, functioning extra-adrenal paraganglioma, and pulmonary chondroma. Twenty-seven cases are reported in literature: the most commonly observed neoplasm is gastric leiomyosarcoma (26/27) followed by lung tumor (22/27), and gastric paraganglioma (15/27). Three patients bearing a gastric leiomyosarcoma developed liver metastases, and 6 had a local recurrence after some years. The occurrence of paraganglioma makes the prognosis worse: 4 deaths from local infiltration, metastases or severe hypertension. The triad only occurred in 9/27 cases, mostly young female patients. A common embryologic origin is difficult to assess. The case of a young female patient with recurrent gastric leiomyosarcoma (12 years later) and bilateral pulmonary chondroma is described. It is important that patients with any of the three tumors be periodically examined.