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PHysical activity Implementation Study In Community-dwelling AduLts (PHISICAL): study protocol (2018)
Journal Article
Carpenter, H., Audsley, S., Coupland, C., Gladman, J. R., Kendrick, D., Lafond, N., …Orton, E. (in press). PHysical activity Implementation Study In Community-dwelling AduLts (PHISICAL): study protocol. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042627

Background: Falls in older people are a leading causes of unintentional injury. Due to an ageing population, injuries are likely to increase unless more is done to reduce older people’s falls risk. In clinical trials, the Falls Management Exercise (F... Read More about PHysical activity Implementation Study In Community-dwelling AduLts (PHISICAL): study protocol.

Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Delbaere, K., Zijlstra, G., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., Masud, T., …Kendrick, D. (in press). Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw036

Objective: To determine the effect of exercise interventions on fear of falling in community-living people aged ?65 years. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Bibliographic databases, trial registers and other sources were searched for ra... Read More about Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community (2014)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Kumar, A., Carpenter, H., Rixt Zijlstra, G., Skelton, D. A., Cooke, J. R., …Delbaere, K. (2014). Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 11, Article CD009848. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD009848.pub2

Background: Fear of falling is common in older people and associated with serious physical and psychosocial consequences. Exercise (planned, structured, repetitive and purposive physical activity aimed at improving physical fitness) may reduce fear o... Read More about Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community.

Multicentre cluster randomised trial comparing a community group exercise programme with home based exercise with usual care for people aged 65 and over in primary care (2014)
Journal Article
Iliffe, S., Kendrick, D., Morris, R., Masud, T., Gage, H., Skelton, D., …Belcher, C. (2014). Multicentre cluster randomised trial comparing a community group exercise programme with home based exercise with usual care for people aged 65 and over in primary care. Health Technology Assessment, 18(49), https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18490

Background: Regular physical activity (PA) reduces the risk of falls and hip fractures, and mortality from all causes. However, PA levels are low in the older population and previous intervention studies have demonstrated only modest, short-term impr... Read More about Multicentre cluster randomised trial comparing a community group exercise programme with home based exercise with usual care for people aged 65 and over in primary care.