Interventions for preventing falls in older people

Udell, Julie E., Drahota, Amy, Dean, Taraneh P., Sander, Ruth and Mackenzie, Heather (2015) Interventions for preventing falls in older people. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 (1). (doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009074.pub2).

Abstract

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: Our overall aim is to provide an overview of interventions for preventing falls in older people by summarising the evidence from multiple Cochrane intervention reviews that evaluate the effects (primarily, rate of falls and number of fallers) of these interventions in different populations of older people, such as those defined by setting or by specific medical conditions. Fall prevention interventions will include those in the following categories: supervised or unsupervised exercises; medication; surgery; management of urinary incontinence; fluid or nutrition therapy; psychological; environment and assistive technologies; social environment; knowledge/education interventions and any other interventions that do not fall into one of these categories (Lamb 2007). Interventions tested may belong to one category ('single' intervention), or more than one category ('multiple' and 'multifactorial' interventions).

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Contributors

Author: Heather Mackenzie

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