Journal article
Treatment of Osteoporosis in Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities: Update on Consensus Recommendations for Fracture Prevention
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Older people living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) are at a higher risk of suffering fractures than the community-dwelling older population. The first Consensus Conference on Treatment of Osteoporosis in RACFs in Australia, held in Sydney in July 2009, aimed to address some of the issues relating to the treatment of older residents with osteoporosis in RACFs. Considering that the field of osteoporosis diagnosis and …
Authors
Duque G; Lord SR; Mak J; Ganda K; Close JJT; Ebeling P; Papaioannou A; Inderjeeth CA
Journal
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 852–859
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 2016
DOI
10.1016/j.jamda.2016.05.011
ISSN
1525-8610