Good memory as a predictor of falls: Fact or artefact

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 404-408

  Delbaere, Kim ^a,b   Close, Jacqueline C T ^a,c   Kochan, Nicole A ^b,d   Sachdev, Perminder S ^b,c,d   Lord, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Ageing; Elderly; Falls; Memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARTIFACTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEW SOUTH WALES; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860539729     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs004     Document Type: Article

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