노인들에 있어서 갑작스런 넘어짐(낙상)으로 유도되는 신체적, 정신적인 쇠약성의 악순환에 관한 고찰 = The vicisious cycle of physical and psychological debilitation leading to falls in the elderly

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

To identify causes and risk factors for falling in the elderly, several risk factors are described and analyzed with evidences in the related literature.
Although many risk factors have ben identified, the direct causes of falls are limited to three: 1) Loss of balance, 2) Loss of strength, and 3) Environmental hazards. From the relationship, which is the circular and interacted relationship of positive feedback, the risk factors for falling are very much interrelated; some are causative factors for others. Therefore, a knowledge of the interaction and mutual causation involved in the risk factors for falling should give us added incentive to seek solutions to this severe threat to the aged among us.