title: [Fall risk and fracture. Falls in patients with dementia].
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Science, Department of Physical Therapy, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan.
authors.forename: Taiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Komatsu
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000375:Aging; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors