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Researchers Examine Fall Risk Factors in Older Adults

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Center for Environmental Resource Management


Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. interdisciplinary research.
  2. End-of-Life decision making
  3. Alzheimer's dementia
  4. chronic diseases
  5. falls and injuries in older adults
  6. geriatric health
  7. Other
  8. Health & Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
  9. Cross-cutting: U.S. –Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
  10. Exposure Science (Air Pollution).
  11. Health and Social Disparities
  12. environmental health
  13. Energy & Environment
  14. Education for the 21st Century Demographic
  15. Cross-cutting: Emerging Technologies: Information Technology, Biotechnology & Nanotechnology

Featured Researcher(s):

Solis, Guillermina
College: School of Nursing
Department: School of Nursing
Olvera Alvarez, Hector
College: School of Nursing
Department: School of Nursing

UTEP Strategic Areas

  1. Health and Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
Researchers Examine Fall Risk Factors in Older Adults
Date: 15 November 2013 17:09



During her 18-year career as a nurse practitioner, Guillermina Solis, Ph.D., has seen the devastating effects a fall can have on an older adult’s health and independence.

Solis remembers treating a patient in her 80s whose life was turned upside down after she fell in her home and fractured her hip.


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