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Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people
— cohort study | | Author(s) | Kim Delbaere, Jacqueline C T Close, Henry Brodaty |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 341, no 7770, 28 August 2010 |
| Pages | p 436 |
| Source | www.bmj.com BMJ2010;341:c4165 |
| Keywords | Falls ; At risk ; Anxiety ; Attitude ; Clinical surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Fear of falling is common in older people and is associated with poor balance, depression and falls. 300 men and women aged 70-90 were randomly recruited from a cohort of 1037 living in the community in eastern Sydney, Australia and participating in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study. Participants were categorised in relation to their physiological fall risk and their perceived fall risk: vigorous, anxious, stoic and aware. The anxious group had a low physiological but a high perceived fall risk, which was related to depressive symptoms, neurotic personality traits and decreased executive functioning. The stoic group had a high physiological but low perceived fall risk, which was protective for falling and mediated through a positive outlook on life and maintained physical activity and community participation. This summary of a paper published on bmj.com shows that many older people underestimate of overestimate their risk of falls. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100908201 A |
| Classmark | OLF: CA3: ENP: DP: 3G: 7YA * |
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