Falls in older people: epidemiology, risk factors and strategies for prevention.

By L. Rubenstein. Age and Ageing, 2006

3,306 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. Victor P. Cornet
2. Peter J. Beek
3. R. Holden
4. O. Meijer
5. J. V. van Dieën
6. Sjoerd M. Bruijn

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Victor P. Cornet
2. Peter J. Beek
3. R. Holden
4. O. Meijer
5. J. V. van Dieën
6. Sjoerd M. Bruijn

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Victor P. Cornet
2. R. Holden
3. J. V. van Dieën
4. Sjoerd M. Bruijn

Citations in the corpus

• Systematic review of smartphone-based passive sensing for health and wellbeing (2017, background): “Clinicians, too, are increasingly interested in capturing patient-reported outcomes including current status, symptoms and adverse events such as falls [3].”
• Clinical Practice Guideline: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (2008, background): “Such counseling could include assessment of home safety, activity restrictions, and the need for home supervision until BPPV is resolved.(90) Patients may be particularly vulnerable in the time interval between initial diagnosis of BPPV and definitive treatment when they are referred to another clin”
• Clinical Practice Guideline: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (Update) (2017, background): “Algorithms for fall assessment and home safety assessment will allow clinicians to stratify patients about these risks.(122) Figure 8.”
• Assessing the stability of human locomotion: a review of current measures (2013, background): “Owing to demographic developments, the incidence of falls and related costs constitute a growing problem in the industrialized world [12].”
• Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics: a review (2015, background): “The risks are also not limited to physical harm, but may a lso include social, emotional, and psychological effects [38,39].”
• Is the Timed Up and Go test a useful predictor of risk of falls in community dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta- analysis (2014, neutral): “Advancing age is a primary risk factor for falling and recent studies have shown that the rate of falling remains at approx 30% in older people since 1988 [2].”
• Falls in individuals with stroke. (2008, background): “3 falls each person-year is even lower than in the general population of elderly people [10].”
• Dose–Response Relationships of Resistance Training in Healthy Old Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2015, background): “There is evidence that muscular weakness is highly associated with impaired mobility and an increased risk for falls [5].”