A home based, nurse delivered exercise programme reduced falls and serious injuries in people >/= 80 years of age.

نویسنده

  • Nancy Edwards
چکیده

Setting A home health service in a geriatric assessment and rehabilitation hospital in New Zealand. Participants 240 people who were >75 years of age (mean age 81 y, 68% women) and were living in their own homes. Exclusion criteria were inability to walk around their own residence, current receipt of physiotherapy, or inability to understand the study. 88% of participants completed 1 year of follow up.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Evidence-based nursing

دوره 5 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002