Community-dwelling older adults' attributions about falls

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 955-960

  Weinberg, Leah E ^a   Strain, Laurel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028849662     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(95)80074-3     Document Type: Article

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