Conceptual limitations of balance measures for community-dwelling older adults

Physical Therapy

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1351-1368

  Pardasaney, Poonam K ^a,b   Slavin, Mary D ^b   Wagenaar, Robert C ^b,c   Latham, Nancy K ^b   Ni, Pengsheng ^b   Jette, Alan M ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; ENVIRONMENT; GAIT; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INDEPENDENT LIVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENVIRONMENT; GAIT; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LIGHTING; POSTURAL BALANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885073290     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130028     Document Type: Article

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