RT Journal Article
T1 Determining the Profile of People with Fall Risk in Community-Living Older People in Algarve Region: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study
A1 Guerreiro, Carla
A1 Botelho, Marta
A1 Fernández Martínez, Elia
A1 Marreiros, Ana
A1 Pais, Sandra
AB : One in three people aged 65 years or older falls every year. Injuries associated with thisevent among the older population are a major cause of pain, disability, loss of functional autonomyand institutionalization. This study aimed to assess mobility and fall risk (FR) in community-livingolder people and to determine reliable and independent measures (health, social, environmentaland risk factors) that can predict the mobility loss and FR. In total, 192 participants were included,with a mean age of 77.93 ± 8.38. FR was assessed by EASY-Care (EC) Standard 2010, the TinettiTest and the Modified Falls Efficacy Scale (MFES). An exploratory analysis was conducted usingthe divisive non-hierarchical cluster method, aiming to identify a differentiator and homogeneousgroup of subjects (optimal group of variables) and to verify if that group shows differences in fallrisk. Individually, the health, social, environmental and risk factor categories were not found to be anoptimal group; they do not predict FR. The most significant predictor variables were a mix of thedifferent categories, namely, the presence of pain, osteoarthritis (OA), and female gender. The findingof a profile that allows health professionals to be able to quickly identify people at FR will enable areduction in injuries and fractures resulting from falls and, consequently, the associated costs
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20647
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20647
LA eng
NO Guerreiro, C., Botelho, M., Fernández-Martínez, E., Marreiros, A., & Pais, S. (2022). Determining the Profile of People with Fall Risk in Community-Living Older People in Algarve Region: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 19, Issue 4, p. 2249). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042249
NO This research was funded by 0551_PSL_6_E-PSL-“Programme for a Long-lived Society”project, INTERREG V-A Spain-Portugal (POCTEP), financed by the cross-border Spain-PortugalEuropean Territorial Cooperation Program, financed by the European Regional Development Fund
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026