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| An impairment and disability assessment and treatment protocol for community-living elderly persons | | Author(s) | Marie Koch, Margaret Gottschalk, Dorothy I Baker |
| Journal title | Physical Therapy, vol 74, no 4, April 1994 |
| Pages | pp 286-298 |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Inactivity ; Falls ; Living in the community ; Evaluation ; Preventative medicine ; Physiotherapy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Falls and immobility are common among older people living at home, and result from the accumulated effect of multiple impairments and disabilities as well as environmental hazards. The authors developed and tested a simple assessment and intervention protocol for use in prevention and treatment programmes. This article presents the components of the assessment; the criteria for intervening on diagnosed impairments contributing to falls and immobility; and the recommended treatments, environmental adaptations, training and exercise programmes targeting the diagnosed problems. Appendices provide descriptions of the assessment and intervention protocols, and a list of the balance exercises. Jane F Hopp and Alvar Svanborg provide an invited commentary, to which the authors also respond. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980108247 A |
| Classmark | BN: C5: OLF: K4: 4C: LK2: LOA: 7T * |
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