Nursing home residents at heightened risk of falling in the days following

Friday, July 15, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Nursing home residents taking certain antidepressant medications are at an increased risk of falling in the days following the start of a new prescription or a dose increase of their current drug, according to a new study by the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

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