Preventing falls in physically active community-dwelling older people: A comparison of two intervention techniques

Gerontology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 298-305

  Freiberger, Ellen ^a   Menz, Hylton B ^b   Abu Omar, Karim ^a   Rütten, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Exercise; Fall prevention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DATA BASE; ENDURANCE; FALLING; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREVENTION STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SKILL; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34548096981     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103256     Document Type: Article

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