Interaction between cognitive status, fear of falling, and balance in elderly persons
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the cognitive function and its relationship with balance, history of falls, and fear of falling in the elderly. METHODS: We evaluated 250 elderly persons aged at least 60 years, who answered a sociodemographic questionnaire about the occurrence of falls in the last year. The cog...
Autores principales: | Graziela Morgana Silva Tavares, Bárbara Palma Pacheco, Maria Gabriela Valle Gottlieb, Daniela Virote Kassick Müller, Gilmar Moraes Santos |
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Formato: | Artículo |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier España
2020-10-01
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Colección: | Clinics |
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Acceso en línea: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322020000100281&tlng=en |
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