MedEdPORTAL (Jan 2007)

Falls in Older Adults (Out of Print)

  • Eric Orton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.274
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

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Abstract This simulation depicts three elderly patients, each with a different diagnosis leading to falls. The first patient has a cardiac condition leading to syncope and falls, the second patient has weakness and arthritis as well as drug-induced causes, and the third patient has normal pressure hydrocephalus. Patients are a 91-year-old white male, a 79-year-old white female, and an 81-year-old white male.

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