Cwikel J, Fried A V, Galinsky D, Ring H
Department of Social Work, Ben Gurion University of the Neger, Beer Sheba, Israel.
Disabil Rehabil. 1995 Aug-Sep;17(6):277-80. doi: 10.3109/09638289509166647.
Falls are the major cause of accidents in the elderly. Falls result from the interaction of medical, psychosocial and age-related changes with environmental conditions. Since many of these factors are amenable to change, theoretically many falls are preventable. As part of a multi-method community fall prevention programme we developed a gait assessment method (ELGAM). We report here on the association between ELGAM parameters and measures of social and physical activity, tested among 36 elderly community-dwelling persons. Social and physical activity were associated with only some of the gait parameters (turning head while walking and walking speed). However, the findings about gait are consistent with other research based on larger samples, and some of the findings from intervention research. Together they suggest the importance of social and physical activity in fall prevention programmes.
跌倒是老年人事故的主要原因。跌倒由医学、心理社会及与年龄相关的变化与环境状况相互作用导致。由于这些因素中的许多是可以改变的，理论上许多跌倒是可以预防的。作为多方法社区跌倒预防计划的一部分，我们开发了一种步态评估方法（ELGAM）。我们在此报告ELGAM参数与社会和身体活动测量之间的关联，在36名社区居住的老年人中进行了测试。社会和身体活动仅与某些步态参数（行走时转头和行走速度）相关。然而，关于步态的研究结果与其他基于更大样本的研究以及一些干预研究的结果一致。它们共同表明社会和身体活动在跌倒预防计划中的重要性。
