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Fear of falling: measurement strategy, prevalence, risk factors and consequences among older persons

2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ageing/afm169

1468-2834

Alice C. Scheffer, Marieke J. Schuurmans, Nynke van Dijk, Truus van der Hooft, Evert de Jonge,

Older Adults Driving Studies

Background fear of falling (FOF) is a major health problem among the elderly living in communities, present in older people who have fallen but also in older people who have never experienced a fall. The aims of this study were 4-fold: first, to study methods to measure FOF; second, to study the prevalence of FOF among fallers and non-fallers; third, to identify factors related to FOF; and last, to investigate the relationship between FOF and possible consequences among community-dwelling older persons.