Epidemiology of and risk factors for falls among the community-dwelling elderly people in selected districts of Umutara Province, Republic of Rwanda

Description

Magister Scientiae (Physiotherapy) - MSc(Physio) / Falls among elderly people have been identified as a significant and serious medical problem confronting a growing number of older people. Falls have been found to be a leading cause of disability, distress, admission to supervised care and death among older persons that pose a serious problem to public health. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for falls in the community-dwelling elderly persons in the Umutara province of Rwanda. / South Africa

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1. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1641

Tags

Falls (Accidents) in old age

Rwanda

Risk factors

Older people

Wounds and injuries

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/1641
Date	January 2005
Creators	Ntagungira, Egide Kayonga
Contributors	Frantz, José Merle, Dept. of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences
Publisher	University of the Western Cape
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis
Rights	University of the Western Cape