Social status, life changes, housing conditions, health, functional abilities and life-style as risk factors for recurrent falls among the home-dwelling elderly

Public Health

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-118

  Luukinen, H ^a   Koski, K ^a   Kivela, S L ^a   Laippala, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Aged; Elderly; Falls; Recurrent falls

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOUSING; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PREVENTION; PULSE RATE; RECURRENCE RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VERTIGO;

EID: 0029881748     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3506(96)80057-6     Document Type: Article

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