Risk factors of falls among elderly living in urban Suez - Egypt

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kamel, Mohammed Hany ^a   Abdulmajeed, Abdulmajeed Ahmed ^a   Ismail, Sally El Sayed ^a  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Assessment; Causes; Elderly; Falls; Primary care; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DRUG THERAPY; EGYPT; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR; WALKER; ASSESSMENT; CAUSES; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FALLS; FRAIL ELDERLY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOME ACCIDENT; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYPHARMACY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING DIFFICULTY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ASSESSMENT; CAUSES; ELDERLY; FALLS; PRIMARY CARE; RISK FACTORS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EGYPT; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; POLYPHARMACY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84874417034     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2013.14.26.1609     Document Type: Article

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