Environmental and behavioral circumstances associated with falls at home among healthy elderly individuals

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-186

  Connell, Bettye Rose ^a   Wolf, Steven L ^b  

^a ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETIOLOGY; FALLING; HAZARD; HOME; HUMAN; PREVENTION;

EID: 0031041250     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(97)90261-6     Document Type: Article

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