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Risk factors for falls among older adults: a review of the literature.
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The major risk factors identified are impaired balance and gait, polypharmacy, and history of previous falls, which include advancing age, female gender, visual impairments, cognitive decline especially attention and executive dysfunction, and environmental factors.About:
This article is published in Maturitas.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 1209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Falls in older adults & Indirect costs.read more
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Effectiveness of a multiple intervention programme for the prevention of falls in older adults persons from a University of the Third Age
Vilmar Mineiro da Silva,Alex Sandro Faria de Arruda,Laís dos Santos Vinholi e Silva,Francisco Luciano Pontes Junior,Meire Cachioni,Meire Cachioni,Ruth Caldeira de Melo +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of a multiple intervention program for the prevention of falls in older adults from a University of the Third Age (U3A) from a quasi-experimental, non-controlled, longitudinal and quantitative study.
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High Frequency of Recurrent Falls Among Prefrail and Frail Women With and Without HIV.
Anjali Sharma,Donald R. Hoover,Qiuhu Shi,Deborah Gustafson,Michael Plankey,Phyllis C. Tien,Kathleen M. Weber,David E. Vance,Michelle Floris-Moore,Hector Bolivar,Elizabeth T. Golub,Marcia McDonnell Holstad,Michael T. Yin +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated associations of the frailty status with self-reported single and recurrent falls in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) and found that women with and without HIV were more likely to experience single or recurrent falls.
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An Exploratory Survey of Older Women's Post-Fall Decisions.
Caroline D. Bergeron,Daniela B. Friedman,S. Melinda Spencer,Susan C. Miller,DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias,Robert McKeever +5 more
TL;DR: Future educational interventions should address knowledge deficits and provide resources to enhance collaborative efforts to lower women’s post-fall decisional conflict and increase satisfaction in the decisions they make after a fall.
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Matching on poset-based average rank for multiple treatments to compare many unbalanced groups.
TL;DR: In this article, a matching procedure for multiple treatment frameworks based on partially ordered set theory (POSet) is proposed, called matching on poset-based average rank for multiple treatments (MARMoT), where the relative average rank is used to balance confounders and match individuals in different treatment groups.
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Are Anticholinergic Symptoms a Risk Factor for Falls in Older General Practice Patients With Polypharmacy? Study Protocol for the Development and Validation of a Prognostic Model
Truc Sophia Dinh,Ana Isabel González-González,Andreas D. Meid,Kym I E Snell,Henrik Rudolf,Maria-Sophie Brueckle,Jeanet W. Blom,Ulrich Thiem,Hans-Joachim Trampisch,Petra J. M. Elders,Norbert Donner-Banzhoff,Ferdinand M. Gerlach,Sebastian Harder,Marjan van den Akker,Paul Glasziou,Walter E. Haefeli,Christiane Muth +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a prognostic model that predicts falls in older general practice patients, to assess the performance of several anticholinergic burden scales, and to quantify the added predictive value of anticholine symptoms in this context.
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