[PDF] Top 20 Analysis of risk factors for falls among institutionalized elderly persons

... collaboration of the community, partner companies and service ...the elderly residents of the institution. It is one of the largest LTCFs in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and houses elderly ... See full document

... the risk factors for falls in older people with mental ...and analysis of medical records of 12 elderly institutionalized in psychiatric ...diagnosis of ... See full document

... about falls among elderly people living in their households in communities, to measure the other risks that they are exposed to in their homes and to evaluate the influence that knowledge on falling ... See full document

... about falls among elderly people living in their households in communities, to measure the other risks that they are exposed to in their homes and to evaluate the influence that knowledge on falling ... See full document

... level of frailty and sociodemographic and health characteristics among elderly residents of a long-term care facility (LTCF) in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, ...56 elderly persons ... See full document

... Descriptive analysis was performed using relative and absolute ...bivariate analysis with significance level set at 5% to identify associations between the dependent variable and independent ...perceptions ... See full document

... occurrence of falls among institutionalized ...victims of falls in an institution of long permanence in the city of João Pessoa- ...The elderly 80 (12) had ... See full document

... normality of the continuous variables was tested using the Shapiro-Wilk ...Most elderly individuals were female ...terms of health, ...suffered falls in the last 12 months; and the individuals ... See full document

... years of schooling and number of household goods, in which the purchasing ability of the respondent is rated according to social classes A, B1, B2, C1, C2, D and E in decreasing ...data ... See full document

... fall risk factors specific to elderly people with dementia and con- cluded that there are intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors which are common to elderly without cognitive ... See full document

... in elderly patients attended in the Traumatology Ambulatory of a University hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, ...study of the type of multiple ...age of sixty or more; patient at the ... See full document

... that risk factors should be inves- tigated before falls actually ...detecting risk of falls, allowing for the analysis of possible associated risk ...to ... See full document

... the elderly, falling constitute an important cause of morbidity and ...recurrence of falls and identify factors associated with falls and recurrent ...cohort of 218 ... See full document

... level of sig- nificance was set at ≤ ...area of fracture, prior fall history, number of falls, number of chronic diseases, place of ...the analysis of the ...ed ... See full document

... univariate analysis, recurrent falls among men were associated to socioeconomic variables (retired, not economically active), smoking habits, poor quality of life, sedentary lifestyle, ... See full document

... been institutionalized in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly for on average ...factor of health condition renders the link between the cognitive state and self-esteem of the ... See full document

... advancing of age, the body undergoes profound cellular and metabolic changes that alter, among other things, muscle ...majority of elderly individuals, and is associated with a progressive ... See full document

... trend among the evidence highlighted so far, in which elderly who fell had decreased strenth capacity and ...and risk factors for falls in the elderly are a combination of ... See full document

... One of his main interests is finding the genetic and environmental risk factors for a number of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and vascular ...studies of the ... See full document

... knowledge of the elderly about the risk factors for ...months of January and February of 2016 with 20 elderly people after approval of the Committee of ... See full document