Can falls in patients with dementia be prevented?
Age and AgeingPublished 1 January 1998Open access
Fiona Shaw, Rose Anne Kenny
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Patients with dementia who fall have a poorer prognosis than cognitively normal elderly fallers and are five times more likely to be institutionalized and have a 6-month mortality of 71%—more than three times that of cognitively intact patients.
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FIONA E. SHAW, ROSE ANNE KENNY; Can falls in patients with dementia be prevented?, Age and Ageing, Volume 27, Issue 1, 1 January 1998, Pages 7–9, https://d
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