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Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 5
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786-792
, May 2009
Self-Report of Missteps in Older Adults: A Valid Proxy of Fall Risk?
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Factors associated with missteps. (A) Scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale were higher, reflecting increased depressive symptoms, among the subgroup of subjects who reported multiple missteps (n=3
Factors associated with missteps. (A) Scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale were higher, reflecting increased depressive symptoms, among the subgroup of subjects who reported multiple missteps (n=30), compared with subjects who reported none (n=211). (B) Scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were also higher, reflecting increased anxiety, in the subgroup of subjects who reported multiple missteps.
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Factors not associated with missteps that were associated with falls. (A) Age, (B) Timed Up & Go times, (C) executive function index.;Factors not associated with missteps that were associated with falls. (A) Age, (B) Timed Up & Go times, (C) executive function index.
Supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant no. AG-14100), by the Israel Ministry of Absorption, and by the European Union Sixth Framework Program (grant no. FET 018474-2), Dynamic Analysis of Physiological Networks (DAPHNet), and STREP 045622 SENSing and ACTION to support mobility in Ambient Assisted Living (SENSACTION-AAL).
No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.
PII: S0003-9993(09)00086-0
doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.11.007
© 2009 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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