Activity limitation due to a fear of falling in older adults with eye disease

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 7967-7972

  Wang, Meng Ying ^a   Rousseau, Jacqueline ^b   Boisjoly, Hélène ^a,c   Schmaltz, Heidi ^d   Kergoat, Marie Jeanne ^b   Moghadaszadeh, Solmaz ^a   Djafari, Fawzia ^a,c   Freeman, Ellen E ^a,c  

^a MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EYE DISEASE; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84870519835     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10701     Document Type: Article

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