Stepping-forward affordance perception test cut-offs: Red-flags to identify community-dwelling older adults at high risk of falling and of recurrent falling

Catarina Pereira; Jorge Bravo; Guida Veiga; José Marmeleira; Felismina Mendes; Gabriela Almeida

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0239837

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Stepping-forward affordance perception test cut-offs: Red-flags to identify community-dwelling older adults at high risk of falling and of recurrent falling

Catarina Pereira ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: clnp@uevora.pt

Affiliations Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisboa, Portugal

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8111-1455

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Jorge Bravo,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisboa, Portugal

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9009-5693

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Guida Veiga,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisboa, Portugal
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José Marmeleira,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisboa, Portugal
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Felismina Mendes,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisboa, Portugal, Escola Superior de Enfermagem S. João de Deus, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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Gabriela Almeida

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisboa, Portugal
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Stepping-forward affordance perception test cut-offs: Red-flags to identify community-dwelling older adults at high risk of falling and of recurrent falling

Catarina Pereira,
Jorge Bravo,
Guida Veiga,
José Marmeleira,
Felismina Mendes,
Gabriela Almeida

Published: October 8, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239837

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