Risk factors for falls in community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia with lewy bodies: Walking with visuocognitive impairment may cause a fall

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-146

  Kudo, Yuri ^a,b,c   Imamura, Toru ^a,d   Sato, Atsushi ^a   Endo, Naoto ^c  

^a Niigata Hosp   (Japan)

^b Midori Hospital   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anxiolytics; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Fall; Hypnotics; Parkinsonism; Visuoperception

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; DONEPEZIL; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARKINSONISM; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 58949095227     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000198688     Document Type: Article

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