FALLS AS AN ACUTE CONDITION IN GERIATRIC PRACTICE

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6
Year: 
2016

A. Zarudsky, Candidate of Medical Sciences Saint Ioasaf Belgorod Regional Clinical Hospital

The paper considers the problems of falls in elderly and senile patients, their etiology and pathogenesis, a risk for falls, and issues of their prevention and complications.

Keywords: 
geriatrics
falls
risk assessment
fall prevention



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