ReviewClinical drug investigation2019
A Literature Review of Psychotropic Medications and Alcohol as Risk Factors for Falls in Community Dwelling Older Adults.
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- Relationship of Ethanol, Cannabinoids, Benzodiazepines, and Opioids to Serious Injuries from Falls in Adults Aged 55 and Older.The Journal of emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Psychotropic medication and in-hospital falls in older adults: a cohort-based secondary analysis with exploratory stratification among users.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Longitudinal patterns of antidepressant and benzodiazepine use associated with injurious falls in older adults with depression: a retrospective cohort study.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation of different fall risk screening tools for risk prediction of ophthalmology inpatients.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Detection of ethanol, cannabinoids, benzodiazepines, and opioids in older adults evaluated for serious injuries from falls.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Exploring the association between activities of daily living ability and injurious falls in older stroke patients with different activity ranges.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Refining and psychometric evaluation of the falling risk assessment tool in ophthalmology inpatients.Nursing open · 2023Article
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- A retrospective cohort study of factors associated with severity of falls in hospital patients.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- An Evaluation Model for the Influence Factors of Interest in Literature Courses Based on Data Analysis and Association Rules in a Small-Sample Environment.Journal of environmental and public health · 2022Article
- Simplifying and Testing the Psychometric Psychiatric Patients' Fall Risk Scale: An Analysis of One-Year Admissions.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Depression, antidepressants and fall risk: therapeutic dilemmas-a clinical review.European geriatric medicine · 2021Review
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake-Inhibitors for Symptom-Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders in Older Adults: An International Delphi Study.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Association between maternal and paternal mental illness and risk of injuries in children and adolescents: nationwide register based cohort study in Sweden.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020Article
- Use of Psychotropic Medications by Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department After Fall-Related Injuries.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2019Article
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Abstract
Psychotropic medications and alcohol are potential risk factors for falls in older adults. However, there has been no appraisal of the literature on whether these medications, both singly and in combination with alcohol, are associated with falls in community dwelling older adults (those aged 60 years and older living independently without care). Four databases (PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL and SCOPUS) and the grey literature (i.e. WHO, Public Health Agency of Canada) were searched using the following terms: benzodiazepine, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-epileptic, lithium, memantine, anti-hypertensives: drug or medication, aged or elderly or older adult or senior, accidental falls or falls or falling, and alcohol. Studies were included if (1) they were primary studies; (2) included community dwelling persons aged 60 years and older; (3) alcohol use was an independent variable; (4) studied medications of interest; (5) falls was the outcome variable; and (6) published in English. Articles published until July 2018 were included. The search yielded 29 studies. The findings show that both benzodiazepines and antidepressants (particularly SSRIs) are associated with fall risk while antipsychotics, anti-hypertensives, anti-epileptics and alcohol are not. No statements were made about lithium or memantine due to a lack of research studies. Future studies with adequate power to detect significant associations between psychotropic medications and falls are needed, especially among individual benzodiazepine and antidepressant medications.
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