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An 85-Year-Old Woman With a History of Falls
Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD
JAMA. 1996;276(1):59-66.
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Dr Delbanco:
Mrs R is an 85-year-old widowed retired municipal worker who is the mother of 2 sons, one of whom is unmarried and lives with her in an urban community near Boston, Mass. Born in Italy, Mrs R came to the United States as a teenager and worked until retiring 10 years ago because of progressive arthritic pain and accompanying unsteadiness. She has no income other than Social Security, receives Medicare, and is eligible for lifesaving free medications at the Beth Israel Hospital, where she has been cared for by a general internist, Dr B, for more than 20 years. In recent years her medical problems have focused on difficulty walking and several falls and near falls, resulting in her being virtually homebound. She lives on the first floor of a house with a few steep steps outside the entrance, which limit her ability to move in and out
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Author Affiliations
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Dr Lipsitz is associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and codirector, Research and Training Institute, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, Mass.
Footnotes
This conference took place at the Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference of the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass, on March 26, 1996.
Reprints: Thomas L. Delbanco, MD, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave, LY310, Boston, MA 02215.
Clinical Crossroads at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital is produced and edited by Thomas L. Delbanco, MD, and Jennifer Daley, MD; Janet Walzer MEd, is managing editor. Clinical Crossroads section editor: Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Editor, JAMA.
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