Commentary: Building the older adult fall prevention movement - Steps and lessons learned

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Smith, Matthew Lee ^a,b   Chaudhary, Sofia ^c   Nieb, Sharon ^c   Bayakly, Rana ^d   Graham, Kathleen ^e   Head, Elizabeth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Brenau University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalitions; Fall prevention; Fall prevention movement; Older adults; Partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015346013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/FPUBH.2016.00277     Document Type: Note

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