Preventing falls: To modify the environment or the individual?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1471-1472

  Gill, Thomas M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALLING; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME; HUMAN; INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST;

EID: 0032757404     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb01570.x     Document Type: Editorial

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