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Besides, some problems exist such as complicated design, slow detection speed, and lack of timeliness. To alleviate these problems, a lightweight subgraph-based deep learning method utilizing skeleton information for fall recognition is proposed in this paper. The skeleton information of the human body is extracted by OpenPose, and an end-to-end lightweight subgraph-based network is designed. Sub-graph division and sub-graph attention modules are introduced to add a larger perceptual field while maintaining its lightweight characteristics. A multi-scale temporal convolution module is also designed to extract and fuse multi-scale temporal features, which enriches the feature representation. The proposed method is evaluated on a partial fall dataset collected in NTU and on two public datasets, and outperforms existing methods. 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