Older Adults & Falls Research
56 peer-reviewed studies, with plain-language summaries and links to the original research.
- Exercise interventions for older adults: a systematic review of meta-analysesMeta-analysisSummary2025
- The effectiveness of digital physical activity interventions in older adults: a systematic umbrella review and meta-meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2024
- Comparison of power training vs traditional strength training on physical function in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2022
- Effects of resistance bands exercise for frail older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled studiesMeta-analysisSummary2021
- The effects of the Otago exercise programme on actual and perceived balance in older adults: a meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2021
- Long-term follow-up of exercise interventions aimed at preventing falls in older people living in the community: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2019
- Digital behavior change interventions to promote physical activity and/or reduce sedentary behavior in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary
- Exercise for sarcopenia in older people: a systematic review and network meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary
- Barriers to and facilitators of physical activity among community-dwelling older adults: a systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary2025
- The effect of reactive balance training on falls in daily life: an updated systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary2022
- Lower-limb factors associated with balance and falls in older adults: a systematic review and clinical synthesisSystematic reviewSummary2020
- A life fulfilled: positively influencing physical activity in older adults: a systematic review and meta-ethnographySystematic reviewSummary2019
- Frailty detection tools in geriatric rehabilitation: a systematic reviewSystematic review2025
- Reversing frailty: structured physical-activity-based physiotherapy on physical, cognitive and emotional health in older adults — systematic reviewSystematic review2025
- Effect of home-based exercise on falls in community-dwelling older adults: an umbrella reviewSystematic review2022
- (Golden Oldie) Patient-centered physical therapy is (cost-)effective in increasing physical activity and reducing frailty in older adults with mobility problems: a randomized controlled trial with 6-months follow-upRCTSummary2015
- A comparison of bone-targeted exercise strategies to reduce fracture risk in middle-aged and older men with osteopenia and osteoporosis: LIFTMOR-M semi-randomized controlled trialRCT2020
- Effects of resistance training on functional strength and muscle mass in 70-year-old individuals with pre-sarcopenia: a randomized controlled trialRCT
- The effects of low-impact moderate-intensity stepping exercise on fatigue and other functional outcomes in older adults with multimorbidity: a randomized controlled trialRCT
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between Life's Essential 8 and frailty in community-dwelling older adultsCohort studySummary2026
- Reciprocal associations between trajectories of physical activity and physical function among older women: the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's HealthCohort studySummary2025
- Activity intensity and all-cause mortality following fall injury among older adults: results from a 12-year national surveyPrimary studySummary2025
- Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: a dual process approachPrimary studySummary2025
- Older people's perception of being frail: a qualitative explorationPrimary studySummary2024
- Task-specific resistance training adaptations in older adults: comparing traditional and power trainingPrimary studySummary2024
- The 30-second chair stand test (CS30) as a predictor of exercise tolerance in elderly individuals (>=75 years) with stage A/B heart failurePrimary studySummary2024
- The effect of perturbation-based balance training on balance control and fear of fallingPrimary studySummary2023
- A physical therapy mobility checkup for older adults: feasibility and participant preferences from a discrete choice experimentPrimary studySummary2022
- Efficacy of a 6-week suspension training exercise program on fitness components in older adultsPrimary studySummary2022
- Evidence-based recommendations for resistance and power training to prevent frailty in community-dwellersPrimary studySummary2021
- One leg standing time predicts fracture risk in older women independent of clinical risk factors and BMDPrimary studySummary2021
- Perceived neighborhood walkability is associated with recent falls in urban dwelling older adultsPrimary studySummary2021
- Proprioceptive training to improve static and dynamic balance in elderlyPrimary studySummary2021
- Characteristics of older adults who are unable to perform a floor transfer: considerations for clinical decision-makingPrimary studySummary2020
- Factors related to self-rated health in older adults: a clinical approach using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) modelPrimary studySummary2019
- Low volume, home-based weighted step exercise training can improve lower limb muscle power and functional ability in community-dwelling older womenPrimary studySummary2019
- The 3-m backwards walk and retrospective falls: diagnostic accuracy of a novel clinical measurePrimary studySummary2019
- The impact of physical activity and sedentary behaviors on frailty levelsPrimary studySummary2019
- Use it or lose it: a qualitative study of the maintenance of physical activity in older adultsPrimary studySummary2019
- Age stereotypes' effects on motor learning in older adults: the impact may not be immediatePrimary studySummary2018
- Do older adults who meet 2008 physical activity guidelines have better physical performance than those who do not meet?Primary studySummary2018
- Medication status and gait mechanics in older adults: a multivariate analysisPrimary studySummary
- A movement framework for older adults: application of the geriatric 5MsPrimary study2025
- Weighted vest use or resistance exercise to offset weight loss-associated bone loss in older adultsPrimary study2025
- Using the specificity and overload principles to prevent sarcopenia, falls and fractures with exercisePrimary study2023
- Muscle power is more important than strength in preventing falls in community-dwelling older adultsPrimary study2022
- Performance and clinimetric properties of the Timed Up From Floor Test completed by apparently healthy community-dwelling older womenPrimary study2020
- Association of step volume and intensity with all-cause mortality in older womenPrimary study2019
- Minimal detectable change in dual-task cost for older adults with and without cognitive impairmentPrimary study2019
- Older adults' experience with fall prevention recommendations derived from the STEADIPrimary study2019
- Physical activity patterns and multimorbidity burden of older adults with different levels of functional statusPrimary study2019
- Walking while talking and risk of incident dementiaPrimary study2018
- Diagnostic accuracy of quadriceps strength-based criteria compared to handgrip-based criteria for diagnosing sarcopenia and severe sarcopenia in older adultsPrimary study
- Diagnostic accuracy of the five times stand-to-sit test for the screening of global muscle weakness in community-dwelling older womenPrimary study
- Rate of force development as a predictor of mobility in community-dwelling older adultsPrimary study
- The sit-to-stand muscle power test: an easy, inexpensive and portable procedure to assess muscle power in older peoplePrimary study