Why Do Healthy Older Adults Fall?: Behavioral and Environmental Risks

Falls among elders at senior centers may be due more to behavioral and environmental risks than to impaired health, strength, and balance. We monitored 222 older adults at senior centers weekly for two years and documented 242 falls; their location (outdoors: inside the home, or in transition areas,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical & occupational therapy in geriatrics 1993-01, Vol.11 (1), p.1-15
Hauptverfasser: Reinsch, Sibylle, MacRae, Priscilla, Lachenbruch, Peter A., Tobis, Jerome S.
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Sprache:eng
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