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Evaluating the effectiveness of a home-based fall risk reduction program for rural community-dwelling older adults
Author(s)	Shawna M Yates, Tim A Dunnagan
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 56A, no 4, April 2001
Pages	pp M226-M230
Keywords	Falls ; At risk ; Preventative medicine ; Living in the community ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	The scheme's objective was to provide health care workers and communities with a primary prevention tool that can be used to teach older people about fall-related risk, with the long-term aim of reducing the incidence of falling in older people living at home. Complete data were collected on 37 people aged 67 to 90 over the 10 week fall risk reduction programme. An intervention group received fall risk education, home based exercise programming, nutrition counselling, and environmental hazard education. Both groups completed a variety of physiological, psychometric, and environmental fall-related risk assessments before and after the intervention period. The intervention group showed significant improvement in balance, biceps endurance, lower extremity power, reduction of environmental hazards, falls efficacy, and nutritious food behaviour during the study period. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010515203 A
Classmark	OLF: CA3: LK2: K4: 4C: 7T
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