The relationship between time spent outdoors, falls, and fall-risk among the community-dwelling elderly in Rural Japan

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 570-577

  Kanzaki Sooudi, Kazuyo ^a  

^a SAPPORO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS;

EID: 70350346079     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000361930.29797.9b     Document Type: Review

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