Depressive symptoms in addition to visual impairment, reduced strength and poor balance predict falls in older Taiwanese people

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 606-612

  Kwan, Marcella Mun San ^a,b   LinS I , Sang I ^c   Close, Jacqueline C T ^a,b   Lord, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Aged; Depression; Muscle strength; Older people; Postural sway; Vision

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TAIWAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84865530675     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs065     Document Type: Article

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