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| Dementia as a risk factor for falls and fall injuries among nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Carol van Doorn, Ann L Gruber-Baldini, Sheryl Zimmerman |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 51, no 9, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp 1213-1218 |
| Keywords | Falls ; Injuries ; Dementia ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Participants were 2,015 residents admitted to 59 randomly selected nursing homes in Maryland. In the 2 years after their admission, these residents had fall data collected from nursing home charts and hospital discharge summaries. The unadjusted fall rate for residents with dementia was 4.05 per year, compared with 2.33 per year for residents without dementia. The effect of dementia on the rate of falling persisted when known risk factors were taken into account. Among fall events, those occurring to residents with dementia were no more likely to result in injury than falls of residents without dementia. However, given the markedly higher rates of falling by residents with dementia, their rate of injurious falls was higher than for residents without dementia. Dementia is an independent risk factor for falling. Although most falls do not result in injury, the fact that residents with dementia fall more often than their counterparts without dementia leaves them with higher overall risk of sustaining injurious falls over time. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031106208 A |
| Classmark | OLF: CU: EA: KX: LHB: 49: 7T |
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