Depressive symptoms in addition to visual impairment, reduced strength and poor balance predict falls in older Taiwanese people
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Depressive symptoms in addition to visual impairment, reduced strength and poor balance predict falls in older Taiwanese people.
OBJECTIVE to determine whether depression is an important and independent predictor of falls in community-dwelling older people living in Taiwan. DESIGN longitudinal study. SETTING five randomly selected villages from Tainan city, Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS in total, 280 community-dwelling people not taking anti-depressant medication aged 65-91 years (mean age 74.9). Participants co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1468-2834,0002-0729
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs065