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Circumstances and consequences of falls in independent community-dwelling older adults

Author(s) -

William P. Berg,

Helaine M. Alessio,

EUGENIA M. MILLS,

Tong Chen

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/26.4.261

Subject(s) - medicine , injury prevention , fall prevention , poison control , falls in older adults , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , accidental fall , accidental , demography , human factors and ergonomics , falling (accident) , gerontology , medical emergency , surgery , environmental health , physics , pathology , sociology , acoustics

knowledge of the circumstances and consequences of falls in older adults is important for understanding the aetiology of falls as well as for effective clinical assessment and design of fall prevention strategies. Such data, however, are relatively scarce, especially in community-dwelling elders.

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