… on physical activity and falls prevention for people aged 65+ years: systematic review to inform the WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

C Sherrington, N Fairhall, W Kwok, G Wallbank… - … and physical activity, 2020 - Springer
physical activity could increase falls due to increased exposure to risk, we suggest that those
undertaking trials of physical activity interventions in older people consider monitoring falls. …

Changes in activity levels, physical functioning, and fall risk during the COVID‐19 pandemic

GJ Hoffman, PN Malani, E Solway… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
physical activity, social isolation, physical function, falls, and … In either case, fall risk may
increase once regular activitiesactivity levels mask shorter-term fall risk, and because falls are …

Physical activity and healthy aging

E Eckstrom, S Neukam, L Kalin… - Clinics in geriatric …, 2020 - geriatric.theclinics.com
… is critical to healthy aging and reducing frailty and risk for falls, maintaining function, and …
homebound, the Otago home health PT intervention to reduce fall risk may be a great choice. …

The effects of physical exercise on balance and prevention of falls in older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

GF Papalia, R Papalia, LA Diaz Balzani… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… the risk of fracture following falls. In this systematic review, we included only RCTs in order to
evaluate the role of physical activity … to compare different kinds of physical activity in order to …

Functional ability, frailty and risk of falls in the elderly: relations with autonomy in daily living

I Tornero-Quiñones, J Sáez-Padilla… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… In this study, the influence of physical activity on improving … influence on reducing the frailty
and risk of falls for the older people in … physical activity produces an improvement in physical

A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries

S Bhasin, TM Gill, DB Reuben… - New England journal …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
… by specially trained nurses, to prevent fall injuries. A total of 86 primary care … risk for fall
injuries. The primary outcome, assessed in a time-to-event analysis, was the first serious fall injury…

Preserving mobility in older adults with physical frailty and sarcopenia: opportunities, challenges, and recommendations for physical activity interventions

M Billot, R Calvani, A Urtamo… - … interventions in aging, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… is physical activity. Here, we describe the opportunities and challenges for the development
of physical activity interventions in people with physical … showed that fall risk perception was …

[HTML][HTML] Approach to falls among the elderly in the community

GC Ang, SL Low, CH How - Singapore medical journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Unaddressed risk factors for falls lead to recurrent falls and poor quality of … falls and near
falls can have a fear of falling, post-fall anxiety syndrome, depression and reduction in activities, …

Prevention of falls in community-dwelling older adults

DA Ganz, NK Latham - New England journal of medicine, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
… to fall risk; for dementia, ensure adequate supervision of the patient during daily activities A
… no decrease in the number of falls and an increased risk of syncope in the group receiving …

Risk factors for recurrent falls in older adults: A systematic review with meta-analysis

DA Jehu, JC Davis, RS Falck, KJ Bennett, D Tai… - Maturitas, 2021 - Elsevier
… which examined risk factors that contributed to recurrent falls in adults aged ≥ 60 years.
Using the falls risk classification system of Lord and colleagues, we classified each risk factor …