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Journals of gerontology. Series A: Biological sciences and medical sciences

Year: 2020
Articles in SafetyLit: 24

Antidepressant use partially mediates the association between depression and risk of falls and fall injuries among older adults

Are biological consequences of childhood exposures detectable in telomere length decades later?

Association between characteristics of injurious falls and fall preventive interventions in acute medical and surgical units

Chronic pain and risk of injurious falls in community-dwelling older adults

Classification of injurious fall severity in hospitalized adults

Cognitive processing speed is strongly related to driving skills, financial abilities, and other instrumental activities of daily living in persons with MCI and mild dementia

Development and validation of person-centered cut-points for the figure-of-8-walk test of mobility in community-dwelling older adults

Effect of holding objects on the occurrence of head impact in falls by older adults: evidence from real-life falls in long-term care

Exercise effects on falls, fractures, hospitalizations and mortality in older adults with dementia: an individual-level patient data meta-analysis

Exercise, processing speed, and subsequent falls: a secondary analysis of a 12-month randomized controlled trial

Falls risk in relation to activity exposure in high risk older adults

Frailty phenotype and cause-specific mortality in the US

Incidence and associated risk factors for falls in older adults post discharge who undergo elective total hip replacement surgery- a prospective cohort study

Increasing life-space mobility in community-dwelling older persons with cognitive impairment following rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial

Longitudinal associations between gait, falls and disability in community-dwelling older adults with type II diabetes mellitus: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Machine learning in aging: an example of developing prediction models for serious fall injury in older adults

Opioid use and the risk of falls, fall injuries and fractures among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Prediction of balance perturbations and falls on stairs in older people using a biomechanical profiling approach: a 12-month longitudinal study

Risk factors for hospital admission after a fall: a prospective cohort study of community-dwelling older people

Subjective motoric complaints and new onset slow gait

Tailored exercise and home hazard reduction for fall prevention in older people with cognitive impairment: the i-FOCIS randomized controlled trial

The impact of obstructive sleep apnoea on balance, gait and falls risk: a narrative review of the literature

The role of psychological and social well-being on physical function trajectories in older adults

The U-shaped relationship between levels of bouted activity and fall incidence in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study