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  • Title: [Fall risk and fracture. Falls in patients with dementia].
    Author: Komatsu T.
    Journal: Clin Calcium; 2013 May; 23(5):731-8. PubMed ID: 23628687.
    Abstract:
    The fall risk has 3.6 fold in Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and 16 fold post faller syndrome among diseases to cause dementia, and it was reported that have a significant parkinsonism and a fall more. DLB has multiple symptoms such as that physical symptom, rather than worsening a symptom by characteristics of high sensibility medical intervention for medication, and has severe problem falls. It was indicated that make a decrease a fall risk for restored cognitive function with executive function in the elderly peoples. Thus, improve the quality of care and the establishment of non - pharmacological therapies, for it is important to further therapeutic exercise as prevention is required cooperation and sharing information across professions.
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