Community-dwelling elderly fallers in Japan are older, more disabled, and more depressed than nonfallers

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1570-1571

  Wada, Taizo ^a   Ishine, Masayuki ^a   Ishimoto, Yasuko ^b   Hirosaki, Mayumi ^b   Kimura, Yumi ^b   Kasahara, Yoriko ^b   Okumiya, Kiyohito ^c   Nishinaga, Masanori ^d   Otsuka, Kuniaki ^e   Matsubayashi, Kozo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^d KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FALL RISK; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; JAPAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 51249099160     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01762.x     Document Type: Letter

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