Sharon R Lewis, Lisa McGarrigle, Michael W Pritchard, Alessandro Bosco, Yang Yang, Ashley Gluchowski, Jana Sremanakova, Elisabeth R Boulton, Matthew Gittins, Anneliese Spinks, Kilian Rapp, Daniel E MacIntyre, Roderick J McClure, Chris Todd
BACKGROUND: Around one-third of older adults aged 65 years or older who live in the community fall each year. Interventions to prevent falls can be designed to target the whole community, rather than selected individuals. These population-level interventions may be facilitated by different healthcare, social care, and community-level agencies. They aim to tackle the determinants that lead to risk of falling in older people, and include components such as community-wide polices for vitamin D supplementation for older adults, reducing fall hazards in the community or people's homes, or providing public health information or implementation of public health programmes that reduce fall risk (e...
January 5, 2024: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews