Year 2024

Year 2023

Ellmers TJ, Freiberger E, Hauer K, Hogan DB, McGarrigle L, Lim ML, Todd C, Martin F, Delbaere K; World Falls Guidelines Working Group on Concerns About Falling. (2023). Why should clinical practitioners ask about their patients’ concerns about falling? Age Ageing. 52(4):afad057.

Lim ML, van Schooten KS, Radford KA, Hadjistavropoulos T, Everett B, Zijlstra R, Delbaere K. (2023). Theoretical framework of concerns about falling in older people: the role of health literacy. Health Promot Int. 38(5):daad122.

Donath L, van Dieën J, Faude O. (2016). Exercise-Based Fall Prevention in the Elderly: What About Agility? Sports Med. 46(2):143-9.

Marks, R. (2023). Falls Injuries among Free Living Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Is Yoga Helpful or Not? World Journal of Yoga, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. 4(2):1-8.

Lenouvel E, Ullrich P, Siemens W, Dallmeier D, Denkinger M, Kienle G, Zijlstra GAR, Hauer K, Klöppel S. (2023). Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with and without exercise to reduce fear of falling in older people living in the community. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 11(11):CD014666. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014666.pub2.

Jehu DA, Skelton DA. (2023). The measurement and reporting of falls: Recommendations for research and practice on defining faller types. J Frailty Sarcopenia Falls. 8(4):200-203. doi: 10.22540/JFSF-08-200.

Lee, D., Tak, S.H. (2023). A concept analysis of fear of falling in older adults: insights from qualitative research studies. BMC Geriatr 23, 651 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04364-5

Dabkowski E, Missen K, Duncan J, Cooper S. (2023). Falls risk perception measures in hospital: a COSMIN systematic review. J Patient Rep Outcomes. 26;7(1):58. DOI: 10.1186/s41687-023-00603-w.

McGarrigle L, et al. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the measurement properties of concerns-about-falling instruments in older people and people at increased risk of falls, Age and Ageing, 52(5):afad055, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad055

Ickert EC, Hughes T, Berg-Carramusa CA, Dudash S, Kerns L. (2023). Overestimation of Balance Ability Among Older Adults at Risk for Falls. J Aging Health. DOI: 10.1177/08982643231186630.

Year 2022

Lim ML, van Schooten KS, Radford KA, Delbaere K. (2022) Development and initial validation of the falls health literacy scale. Maturitas. 159:40-45. T

sang, C., Leung, J., Kwok, T. (2022). Self-perceived balance confidence is independently associated with any subsequent falls and injurious falls among community-dwelling older fallers: A prospective cohort study. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 103:104776.

McCrum, C., Bhatt, T.S., Gerards, M.H.G. et al. (2022) Perturbation-based balance training: Principles, mechanisms and implementation in clinical practice. Front. Sports Act. Living. 4. DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2022.1015394

Huang, W.N.W., Mao, H.F., Lee, H.M., Chi, W.C. (2022). Association between Fear of Falling and Seven Performance-Based Physical Function Measures in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study 10, 1139. DOI:10.3390/ healthcare10061139

Year 2021

Manuel M.O., Nathalie V.D.V, Finbarr C.M. et al. (2022) World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative, Age and Ageing, 51; 9, DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afac205

COSMIN (2021). COSMIN helps you select the most suitable outcome measurement instruments. Accessed at https://www.cosmin.nl/

Audsley, S., Kendrick, D., Logan, P. et al. (2021) Keeping adults physically active after Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programmes end: developing a physical activity maintenance intervention. Pilot Feasibility Stud 7;108. DOI: 10.1186/s40814-021-00844-w

Kruisbrink, M., Crutzen, R., Kempen, G.I.J.M. et al (2021) Disentangling interventions to reduce fear of falling in community-dwelling older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention components. Disability and Rehabilitation, DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2021.1969452

Year 2020

Arkkukangas M., Bååthe K.S., Hamilton J. et al. (2020) Feasibility of a novel Judo4Balance – fall preventive exercise programme targeting community-dwelling older adults. J Frailty Sarcopenia Falls. 5(3):47-52. DOI: 10.22540/JFSF-05-047

Kruisbrink, M., Delbaere, K., Crutzen, R. et al. (2020) Intervention Characteristics Associated With a Reduction in Fear of Falling Among Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnaa021

< Year 2019

Cleary K., Skornyakor E. (2017). Predicting falls in community dwelling older adults using the Activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 72:142-145.

Fortinski, R.H., Panzer, V., Wakefield, D., Into, F. (2009) Alignment between balance confidence and fall risk in later life: Has over-confidence been overlooked? Health, Risk & Society. 11(4):341-352.

Muir, S.W., Berg, K., Chesworth, B., Klar, N., Speechley, M. (2010). Balance Impairment as a Risk Factor for Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Who Are High Functioning: A Prospective Study, Physical Therapy, 90(3):338–347, https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20090163

Criter, R.E., Honaker, J.A. (2016). Identifying Balance Measures Most Likely to Identify Recent Falls. Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. 39(1):30-37. DOI: 10.1519/JPT.0000000000000039

Sakurai, R., Fujiwara, Y., Ishihara, M. et al. (2013). Age-related self-overestimation of step-over ability in healthy older adults and its relationship to fall risk. BMC Geriatr 13, 44 (2013). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-13-44

Butler AA, Lord SR, Taylor JL, Fitzpatrick RC. (2015). Ability versus hazard: risk-taking and falls in older people. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 70(5):628-34. DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glu201.

Lord, S.R., Close, J.C.T. (2018) New horizons in falls prevention. Age Ageing. 47(4):492-498. DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afy059.

Bula, C.J., Monod, S., Hoskovec, C., Rochat, S. (2011). Interventions Aiming at Balance Confidence Improvement in Older Adults: An Updated Review. Gerontology. 57: 276-286. DOI: 10.1159/000322241

Rand, D., Miller, W.C., Yiu, J., Eng, J.J. (2011). Interventions for addressing low balance confidence in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing. 40: 297-306. DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr037

Maki, B.E., Kibley, K.M., Jaglal, S.B. et al. (2011) Reducing fall risk by improving balance control: Development, evaluation and knowledge-translation of new approaches. Journal of Safety Research. 42: 473-485. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2011.02.002

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Wang, Y.C., Sindhu, B., Lehman, L. et al. (2018). Rasch Analysis of the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale in Older Adults Seeking Outpatient Rehabilitation Services. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 48(7):574-583. DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2018.8023.

De Vet, H.C.W., Terwee, C.B., Mokkink, L.B., Knol, D.L. (2011). Measurement in medicine. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Arnadottir, S.A., Lundin-Olsson, L., Gunnarsdottir, E.D., Fisher, A.G. (2010). Application of Rasch analysis to examine psychometric aspects of the activities-specific balance confidence scale when used in a new cultural context. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 91(1):156-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.09.010.

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Clemson, L., Bundy, A.C., Cumming, R.G., Kay, L., Luckett, T. (2008). Validating the Falls Behavioural (FaB) scale for older people: a Rasch analysis. Disabil Rehabil. 30(7):498-06. DOI: 10.1080/09638280701355546.

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Yardley, L., Beyer, N., Hauer, K., Kempen, G, et al. (2005). Development and initial validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I). Age Ageing. 34(6):614-9. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afi196.

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