domestic environmental risk factors associated with falling in elderly.

Domestic Environmental Risk Factors Associated with Falling in Elderly

BACKGROUND This is a cross-sectional study aiming at analyzing the relation between falling and domestic environmental -risk factors in community-dwelling elderly. METHODS The study consisted of 243 randomly chosen community-dwelling elderly over 65 years of age living around a health care center in Central Selcuklu, Konya. Data were collected with a questionnaire form including socio-demogra...

Risk factors associated with injury attributable to falling among elderly population with history of stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke survivors are at high risk for falling. Identifying physical, clinical, and social factors that predispose stroke patients to falls may reduce further disability and life-threatening complications, and improve overall quality of life. METHODS We used 5 biennial waves (1998-2006) from the Health and Retirement Study to assess risk factors associated with falling a...

Risk Factors Associated with the Fear of Falling in Community-Living Elderly People in Korea: Role of Psychological Factors

Little is known about the risk factors for the fear of falling in elderly Korean individuals. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the risk factors for fear of falling in a representative elderly population of over 10,000 individuals aged 65 years and older. A multivariate multinomial analysis revealed that the risk factors associated with a severe fear of falling were being female [odd...

The Risk of Falling Associated to Dizziness in Elderly

The aging of the world’s population is an undeniable fact. There is a totally agreement that the pace of this process in next decades will be particularly fast in developing countries [4]. It is an extremely complex phenomenon caused by many factors, which produces the most diverse trends and consequences. That’s why this phenomenon is demanding more and more multidisciplinary studies for its b...

P-71: Risk Factors Associated with Womens

Pnm-4: Risk Factors Associated with Infertility

Background Infertility is the inability to conceive children after one year of unprotected intercourse. The estimated prevalence of infertility in Canada is 11.5-15.7%. Fertility problems affect approximately one in seven couples in the United Kingdom (UK). Infertility occurs in conditions in which the pregnancies end with recurrent miscarriages (ASR) or birth of a child with multiple congenita...