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Falls in older people : risk factors, strategies for prevention and implications for practice

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Language: English Publisher: Cambridge; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvi, 484pISBN:

9781108706087

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NLM classification:

WA 288

Summary: This third edition brings together the latest literature across multiple fields to facilitate the understanding and prevention of falls in older adults. Thoroughly revised by a multidisciplinary team of authors, it features a new three-part structure covering epidemiology and risk factors for falls, strategies for prevention and implications for practice. The book reviews and incorporates new research in an additional thirteen chapters covering the biomechanics of balance and falling, fall risk screening and assessment with new technologies, volitional and reactive step training, cognitive-motor interventions, fall injury prevention, promoting uptake and adherence to fall prevention programs and translating fall prevention research into practice.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves	WT 100 LOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	09/11/2023	BARTS006256

Preceded by Falls in older people / Stephen R. Lord ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. c2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This third edition brings together the latest literature across multiple fields to facilitate the understanding and prevention of falls in older adults. Thoroughly revised by a multidisciplinary team of authors, it features a new three-part structure covering epidemiology and risk factors for falls, strategies for prevention and implications for practice. The book reviews and incorporates new research in an additional thirteen chapters covering the biomechanics of balance and falling, fall risk screening and assessment with new technologies, volitional and reactive step training, cognitive-motor interventions, fall injury prevention, promoting uptake and adherence to fall prevention programs and translating fall prevention research into practice.

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