title: Falls in the elderly Falls in the elderly JH Downton Edward Arnold 158pp £16.95 0-340-54848-7 [Formula: see text].
abstract: With the increasing need to promote health and care in the community, Falls in the Elderly should be a useful text. Joanna Downton, a consultant geriatrician, provides 10 individually referenced chapters, beginning with the epidemiology of falls, ranging through consequences, management, nursing aspects and the prevention of falls, and ending with suggestions for the future and an index.