Risk factors for future falls among community-dwelling older adults without a fall in the previous year: A prospective one-year longitudinal study
Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics
Fecha de publicación: November 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104161
Autores: Jaqueline Mello Porto, Natália Camargo Rodrigues Iosimuta, Renato Campos Freire Júnior, Roberta de Matos Brunelli, Braghin, Érika Leitner, Lara Gonçalves Freitas, Daniela Cristina Carvalho de Abreu.
Background: One of the main risk factor for falls is a history of falls itself. Henceforth, preventing a fall is an important strategy for the prevention of new ones. The objective of the present study was to determine whether personal self-perception questions and functional tests might represent risk factors for a fall during the year following a year without any falls among independent community-dwelling older adults, considering a period of 12 prospective months.
