Declining cognition and falls: Role of risky performance of everyday mobility activities

Physical Therapy

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 355-362

  Fischer, Barbara L ^a   Gleason, Carey E ^a,b   Gangnon, Ronald E ^b   Janczewski, Jodi ^c   Shea, Terry ^c   Mahoney, Jane E ^b  

^a WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84897584680     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130195     Document Type: Article

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