Predictors for occasional and recurrent falls in community-dwelling older people

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-10

  Gaßmann, Karl Günter ^a   Rupprecht, Roland ^b   Freiberger, Ellen ^b  

^a Clinic for Geriatric Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aged; Falls; Prospective cohort study; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RECURRENCE; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67349180328     PISSN: 09486704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00391-008-0506-2     Document Type: Article

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