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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.