Depression, Falls, and Risk of Fracture in Older Women

Risk factors associated with falls in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes

“…These results are consistent with the findings of several studies (Roman de Mettelinge et al, 2013;Whooley et al, 1999). Although diabetes is associated with geriatric syndromes including functional decline, cognitive impairment, depression, and falls in frail elderly patients, these symptoms are mutually related (Araki & Ito, 2009;Brown, Mangione, Saliba, & Sarkisian, 2003).…”

The effects of calcitriol on falls and fractures and physical performance tests

“…Several factors that contribute to falls may be unresponsive to drug therapy [30]. These include urge incontinence, medications that impair cognition such as analgesics, psychotropics, sedatives or medications that induce orthostatic hypotension.…”

Social Networks and Marital Status Predict Mortality in Older Women

“…The relationship with all-cause mortality remained significant even after controlling for an established set of covariate predictors that included markers of socioeconomic status (years of education) as well as biomedical variables. Our set of covariates also included depression scores from the Geriatric Depression Scale, which were shown to be powerful predictors of mortality and fall risk in the SOF sample in previous studies (25)(26). Equally important, the mortality risk associated with social network scores was generally linear.…”