Falls (accidents) in elderly
Factors associated with falls in elderly people with osteopenia or osteoporosis counter-referred from secondary care
... the elderly who already had a fracture would have ...of falls in elderly patients with low bone mass counter-referred by secondary care to primary ...
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Risk Factors for new accidental falls in elderly patients at traumatology ambulatory center
... in elderly patients attended in the Traumatology Ambulatory of a University hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, ...and in conditions of answer an interview of data ...the Elderly ...
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Physiotherapy in the Prevention of Falls in Elderly People
... of falls involving the elderly have consequences that are not only by the health and social issues, but also reflected on the economic aspect, affecting physically and psychologically the ...individual. ...
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Stroke and risk factors for falls in elderly individuals
... groups. Falls occurred more often in the morning (56.5%), in a lighted environment ...(76.7%), in places without handrails (93.3%), ramps (96.6%) and in cluttered environments ...The ...
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Falls in elderly: identification of extrinsic risk factors at home
... to falls, unless the necessary changes do not involve high cost, but creativity, common sense, attention and willingness to care, modify or adapt the house according to the ...
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Prevalence of falls in elderly women
... presented in this study do not indicate significant differences, we can observe a similar trend among the evidence highlighted so far, in which elderly who fell had decreased strenth capacity and ...
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Educação em saúde na prevenção de quedas em idosos / Health education in the prevention of falls in elderly
... Introduction: Falls in the elderly, fractures and the risk of falling significantly increase with advancing age, as aging brings several anatomical and physiological changes, making the ...
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Factors associated with falls in elderly people with osteopenia or osteoporosis counter-referred from secondary care
... participation in telephone survey ...vegetables. In addition, most of them had a fixed income, had been contacted by primary care after counter- referral and depended exclusively on the National Unified ...
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Ações na atenção básica para a prevenção de quedas em idosos / Nursing actions in basic care for the prevention of falls in elderly
... especially in Brazil, this transition is occurring in an accelerated way, which demands a public health system capable of reaching the needs of the population, since there is an increase in the ...
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Role of physical activity in the prevention of falls and their consequences in the elderly
... falling in the elderly, namely fractures, and to identify strategies to prevent falls and minimise their ...effects. Falls in elderly people are a major cause of injuries, ...
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Practices and behaviors of professionals after falls in institutionalized elderly with and without cognitive decline
... ABSTRACT. Falls are a major problem in nursing homes due to their high prevalence and impact on the functioning of ...after falls in elderly; b) describe practices and behaviors after ...
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Functional capacity and risk of falls in the elderly
... of falls in elderly ...of elderly had already suffered a fall and ...the elderly presented complete independence in most of the items related to daily life activities; however, ...
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Determinants of risk of falls among elderly: a systematic study
... especially in the increasingly elderly population (85 years and over), causing several losses, costs, damages emotional, financial, social, for the individual, family and society, becomes is possible to ...
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Cross-Cultural Validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale International in Elderly: Systematic Literature Review
... four falls. The greatest fall prevalence was found in women, the elderly, and the young, and most occurred in the yard and in the ...out in the cause of the falls ...
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CHARACTERIZATION OF FALLS IN THE ELDERLY
... the falls suffered by ...97 elderly experienced falls, admitted to the Health Units in the city of Joao Pessoa, ...questionnaire in the period April to June ...study in their ...
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Prevention of falls - interventions in the home visits to the elderly: scoping review
... policy in this population challenges health professionals, including primary health care nurses, to identify risk factors and to implement appropriate individual preventive ...one in ve falls require ...
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Falls in institutionalized elderly with and without cognitive decline A study of some factors
... to elderly people with dementia and con- cluded that there are intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors which are common to elderly without cognitive decline and others that are exclusive to people with ...to ...
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Validation of the Falls Effi cacy Scale – International in a sample of Portuguese elderly
... of elderly people, with more than 65 years, living in the ARM, and it was selected through a not- probabilistic, convenience ...were: elderly people who resided in the city of Porto Santo, ...
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Awareness about falls and elderly people’s exposure to household risk factors
... that elderly people in the community have concerning falls and related ...mentioned in the Global Report from the World Health Organization (WHO) called Falls Pre- vention in ...
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Falls and associated factors among elderly users of Primary Healthcare Services
... distributed in the north, west, cen- tral, south and east ...seen in the several basic healthcare units, as defined by the Municipal Secretary of ...tum. In each healthcare district, there are ...
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