Prevention of Fall and Related Injuries in Home- Dwelling Elderly
چکیده
Backgrounds and Objective: Due to increasing number of elderly people in different countries, fall and related injuries have been increased. Fall and its injuries are common health problems of the elderly and they are cause of long-term disability and dysfunction, mortality and cost to the person and community. The aim of this review is to update the evidence-based knowledge of prevention of falls in elderly adults.Materials and Methods: In this narrative review, trials and reviews from 2000 till 2013, using falls, elderly and prevention or their synonyms as key words with
کلید واژگان
سقوطسالمند
افتادن
زمین خوردن
مداخلۀ پیشگیری
شماره نشریه
3تاریخ نشر
2014-12-221393-10-01
ناشر
دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتیسازمان پدید آورنده
PhD candidate, Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranSaefty Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Faculty of Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Department of internal medicine, Ayatollah Taleghani hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
شاپا
2345-24552383-1901
