Open AccessHearing and vision impairment and the 5-year incidence of falls in older adults
Author(s) -
Bamini Gopinath,
Catherine McMahon,
George Burlutsky,
Paul Mitchell
Publication year - 2016
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/afw022
Subject(s) - medicine , hearing loss , visual impairment , incidence (geometry) , odds ratio , audiology , poison control , confidence interval , population , injury prevention , cohort study , cohort , falls in older adults , psychiatry , medical emergency , physics , environmental health , optics
concurrent vision and hearing loss are common in older adults; however, epidemiological data on their relationship with the incidence of falls are lacking.
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