Effects of Long Term Care Hospital Care-givers' Fall Prevention Self Efficacy and Fall Prevention Health Belief on Fall Prevention Awareness
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Complexities of fall prevention.
Falls are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults and are an independent predictor variable leading to nursing home admission [1]. Each year, 20 percent of people older than 65 sustain serious falls [2]. Accidental death among the elderly is most often caused by falls [3]. The effects of falls, however, are not limited to physical injury; psychological and social sequelae ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1598-4877
DOI: 10.5392/jkca.2015.15.02.333