Home environmental and health-related factors among home fallers and recurrent fallers in community dwelling older Korean women

International Journal of Nursing Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 481-488

  Lim, Young Mi ^a   Sung, Mi Hae ^b  

^a Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Inje University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Falling; Home environment; Older women

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866784362     PISSN: 13227114     EISSN: 1440172X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.2012.02060.x     Document Type: Article

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