What is it about?
Falls in older people are a major public health problem, yet socioeconomic risk factors for falls remain largely unknown. We have investigated the epidemiology of fall and its associated socioeconomic risk factors in older Korean adults through a secondary analysis of national survey data.
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Our findings show that the groups with significantly higher fall risks were older aged, being female, not married or widowed, less educated, unemployed, and having lower relationship satisfaction. Gender and relationship satisfaction were the utmost important fall risk factors, indicating being older female with lower relationship satisfaction were the foremost socioeconomic characteristics for risk of falling. These findings could contribute to better understanding of the socioeconomic fall risk profiles among Korean elderly and effective strategies for fall prevention.
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This article is an international joint study that advances our ongoing research into falls and injury prevention to support healthy and safe aging.
Shuping Xiong
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Epidemiology of fall and its socioeconomic risk factors in community-dwelling Korean elderly, PLoS ONE, June 2020, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234787.
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