Falls exercise interventions and reduced falls rate: Always in the patient's interest?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-13

  Laybourne, A H ^a   Biggs, S ^a   Martin, F C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity restriction; Elderly; Falls prevention; Quality of life; Selective optimisation and compensation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BONE STRENGTH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALL RISK; FALLING; GERIATRIC CARE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INJURY; KINESIOTHERAPY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK REDUCTION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 38549179918     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm190     Document Type: Note

References (17)

1. American Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Panel on Falls Prevention. Guideline for the prevention of falls in older persons. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001; 49: 664-72.
2. Yardley L, Smith H. A prospective study of the relationship between feared consequences of falling and avoidance of activity in community-living older people. Gerontologist 2002; 42:17-23.
3. Chang JT, Morton SC, Rubenstein LZ et al. Interventions for the prevention of falls in older adults: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials. BMJ 2004; 328: 680.
4. Lamb SE, Jorstad-Stein EC, Hauer K et al. Development of a common outcome data set for fall injury prevention trials: The prevention of falls network Europe consensus. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005; 53:1618-22.
5. Baltes P, Baltes M. Psychological perspectives on successful aging. The model and selective optimisation with compensation. In Baltes P, Baltes M, eds. Successful Aging. Perspectives from the Behavioural Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 1-34.
6. Howland J, Peterson EW, Levin WC et al. Fear of falling among the community-dwelling elderly. J Aging Health 1993; 5: 229-43.
7. Nakamura D, Holm M, Wilson A. Measures of balance and fear of falling in the elderly: A review. Phys Occup Ther Geriatr 1998; 15: 17-32.
8. Tinetti ME, Speechley M. Prevention of falls among the elderly. N Engl J Med 1989; 320:1055-9.
9. Ballinger C, Payne S. The construction of the risk of falling among and by older people. Ageing Soc 2002; 22: 305-24.
10. Yardley L, Donovan-Hall M, Francis K et al. Older people's views of advice about falls prevention: A qualitative study. Health Educ Res 2006; 21: 508-17.
11. Simpson JM, Darwin C, Marsh N. What are older people prepared to do to avoid falling?. A qualitative study in London. Br J Community Nurs 2003; 8:152-154,159.
12. Bruce DG, Devine A, Prince RL. Recreational physical activity levels in healthy older women: The importance of fear of falling. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50: 84-9.
13. Bowling A, Lliffe S. Which model of successful ageing should be used? Baseline findings from a British longitudinal survey of ageing. Age Ageing 2006; 35:607-14.
14. Bowling A, Seetai S, Morris R et al. Quality of life among older people with poor functioning. The influence of perceived control over life. Age Ageing 2007; 36: 310-15.
15. Coleman PG, O'Hanlon A. Theories of ageing and adaption. Ageing and Development. London: Arnold, 2004; 83-104.
16. Baltes P, Baltes M, Freund A et al. The Measurement of Selection, Optimisation and Compensation SOC by Self Report: Technical Report. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 1999.
17. Freund AM, Baltes P. Selection, optimisation and compensation as strategies of life management: Correlations with subjective indicators of successful ageing. Psychol Aging 1998; 13: 531-43.