ArticleSao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
Association between falls and cognitive performance among community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional study.
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- Healthy aging meta-analyses and scoping review of risk factors across Latin America reveal large heterogeneity and weak predictive models.Nature aging · 2024Pooled it
- Multi-trajectory patterns of ADL, cognition, and depression with fall risk: evidence from a longitudinal study in China.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- A multidimensional analysis of fall risk among older adults in India: evidence from the longitudinal ageing study in India (LASI).European geriatric medicine · 2026Article
- Physical activity, health symptoms, and falls in older adults with different cognition levels: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Older People at High Risk of Falls With and Without Cognitive Impairment and Factors Related to Falls: A Cross-Sectional Study.Sage open agingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundFalls among older people have a negative impact on health and therefore constitute a public health problem. Cognitive decline can also accompany the aging process, and both conditions lead to significant increases in morbidity and mortality in this population.
objectiveTo analyze the cognitive performance of older people, classified as non-fallers, sporadic fallers and recurrent fallers, and investigate the relationship between falls and cognition. DESIGN AND
settingCross-sectional study conducted in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
methodsEvaluations on 230 older people were conducted. They were divided into three groups: non-fallers, sporadic fallers (one fall) and recurrent fallers (two or more falls). The Mini-Mental State Examination, Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD), Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB), Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly (CAMDEX) similarities subtest and digit span test were applied.
resultsIn multinomial logistic regression, being a recurrent faller was significantly associated with lower scores in the CERAD word list (odds ratio, OR = 0.92; 95% confidence interval, CI, 0.86-0.98; P = 0.01), in CERAD constructive praxis (OR = 0.88; 95% CI, 0.79-0.98; P = 0.02), in BCSB figure list memory (OR = 0.94; 95% CI, 0.89-0.99; P = 0.02) and in verbal fluency (OR = 0.89; 95% CI, 0.81-0.97; P = 0.01). Recurrent fallers also had lower scores in these same tests, compared with sporadic fallers.
conclusionCognitive impairment, especially in the domains of memory and executive functioning, can influence occurrences of recurrent falls.
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