Fear of falling and changed functional ability following hip fracture among community-dwelling elderly people: An explanatory sequential mixed method study

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 2124-2131

  Jellesmark, Annette ^a   Herling, Suzanne Forsyth ^a   Egerod, Ingrid ^b   Beyer, Nina ^c  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Elderly; Hip fracture; Mobility and activity avoidance

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEAR; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867540438     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2012.673685     Document Type: Article

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