Drug Treatment as a Cause of Falls in Old Age
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs & Aging
- Vol. 1 (4) , 289-302
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00002512-199101040-00005
Abstract
There are a number of ways in which drugs might increase the risk of an elderly person falling. The most important of these are sedation, impaired balance and reaction time, hypotension and...Keywords
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