Ageing and safety promotion- What do we know and where are we going ?

- Svanström L. Simply osteoporosis - or multifactorial genesis for the increasing incidence of fall injuries in the elderly? Scand J Soc Med 1990;18:165-9.

Effective Health Care. Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. NHS Centre for Review and Dissemination, University of York Effective Health Care. Preventing falls and subsequent Injury in older people. Effective Health Care . April 1996 Vol. 2 No. 4.

Sackett D.L. , Haynes R.B. , Guyatt G.H. , Tugwell P. Clinical Epidemiology: a basic science for clinical medicine. 2nd Edition. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1991.

- Hornbrook M.C. , Stevens V.J. , Wingfield D.J. , Hollis J.F. , Greenlick M.R. , Ory M.G. Preventing falls among community dwelling older persons: Results from a randomised trial. The Gerontologist 1994;34:16-23.

- Carpenter G.I. , Demopoulos G.R. Screening the elderly in the community: Controlled trial of dependency surveillance using a questionnaire administered by volunteers. British Medical Journal 1990 ;300:1253-6.

Gillespie W.J. Henry D.A. , O'Connell D.L. Robertson J. Vitamin D, Vitamin D analogues and calcium in prevention of fractures involutional and postmenopausal osteoporosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 1996: Issue 3.

Hailey D. Sampietro-Colom L. Marshall D. Rico R. Granados A. Asua J. Sheldon T. INAHTA project on the effectiveness of bone density, measurement and associated treatments for prevention of fracturtes. Statement of findings . Published on behalf of the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment by: Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Canada. 1996.

- Rubenstein L.Z. , Robbins A.S. , Josephson K.R. Schulman B.L. , Osterweil D. The value of assessing falls in an elderly population. A randomised clinical trial. Annals of Internal Medicine 1990;113:308-16.

- Ploeg J. , Black M.E. , Hutchinson B.G. , Walter S.D. , Scott E.A. , Chambers L.W. Personal, home and community safety promotion with community-dwelling elderly persons: response to a public health nurse intervention. Canadian Journal of Public Health 1994;85:188-91.

- Tinetti M.E. , Baker D.I. , MacAvay G. , Claus E.B. , Garrett P. , Gottschalk M. , Kock M.L. , Trainor K. , Horwitz R.I. A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community. The New England Journal of Medicine. 1994;331:821-7.

Svanström L. , Ader M. , Schelp L, Lindström. Preventing femoral fractures among elderly: The community safety approach. Safety Science 1996;21:239-46.

- Ray W.A. , Taylor J.A. , Meador K.G. , Thapa P.B. , Brown A.K. , Kajihara H.K. , Davie C. , Gideon P. , Griffin M.R. A randomised trial of a consultation service to reduce falls in nursing homes. JAMA 1997 ;278:557-62.

- Plautz B. , Beck D.E. , Selmar C. , Radetsky M. Modifying the environment: A community based injury reduction program for elderly residents. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 1996;12:33-8.

LIEN HYPER TEXTE http://www.ki.se/phs/wcccsp/main.html www.ki.se/phs/wcc-csp/main.html

- Schelp L. Community Intervention and Changes in Accident Pattern in a Rural Swedish Municipality. Health Promotion 1989; 2:109-25.