@article{ref1,
title="Are elderly people at risk of falling taught how to get up again?",
journal="Age and ageing",
year="1993",
author="Simpson, Judy M. and Salkin, S.",
volume="22",
number="4",
pages="294-296",
abstract="It is recommended that patients at risk of falling should be taught how to get up from the floor. Clinical experience suggests, however, that this is rarely done. A stratified random sample of members of the special interest group of physiotherapists working with elderly people in England and Wales (PT: n = 50) and all members of the corresponding occupational therapy group (OT: n = 41) were surveyed to ascertain whether or not this impression was justified. The response rate was 80% with 67 usable replies (74%, PT: n = 38, OT: n = 29). Replying to an open-ended question about their usual management of instability and tendency to fall, only four physiotherapists (11%) and six occupational therapists (21%) indicated that would they teach such elderly people how to get up from the floor.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-0729",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}