Falls and age in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 570-572

  Bassiony, Medhat M ^a,b   Rosenblatt, Adam ^a,c   Baker, Alva ^c   Steinberg, Martin ^a,c   Steele, Cynthia D ^a,c   Sheppard, Jeanie Marie E ^a   Lyketsos, Constantine G ^a,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c The Copper Ridge Institute   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Falls; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 4143083877     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000135498.96431.ef     Document Type: Article

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