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Montero-Odasso M, van der Velde N, Martin FC, Petrovic M, Tan MP, Ryg J, Aguilar-Navarro S, Alexander NB, Becker C, Blain H, Bourke R, Cameron ID, Camicioli R, Clemson L, Close J, Delbaere K, Duan L, Duque G, Dyer SM, Freiberger E, Ganz DA, Gómez F, Hausdorff JM, Hogan DB, Hunter SMW, Jauregui JR, Kamkar N, Kenny RA, Lamb SE, Latham NK, Lipsitz LA, Liu-Ambrose T, Logan P, Lord SR, Mallet L, Marsh D, Milisen K, Moctezuma-Gallegos R, Morris ME, Nieuwboer A, Perracini MR, Pieruccini-Faria F, Pighills A, Said C, Sejdic E, Sherrington C, Skelton DA, Dsouza S, Speechley M, Stark S, Todd C, Troen BR, van der Cammen T, Verghese J, Vlaeyen E, Watt JA, Masud T. World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative. Age Ageing 2022; 51:afac205. [PMID: 36178003 PMCID: PMC9523684 DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afac205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 119.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND falls and fall-related injuries are common in older adults, have negative effects on functional independence and quality of life and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health related costs. Current guidelines are inconsistent, with no up-to-date, globally applicable ones present. OBJECTIVES to create a set of evidence- and expert consensus-based falls prevention and management recommendations applicable to older adults for use by healthcare and other professionals that consider: (i) a person-centred approach that includes the perspectives of older adults with lived experience, caregivers and other stakeholders; (ii) gaps in previous guidelines; (iii) recent developments in e-health and (iv) implementation across locations with limited access to resources such as low- and middle-income countries. METHODS a steering committee and a worldwide multidisciplinary group of experts and stakeholders, including older adults, were assembled. Geriatrics and gerontological societies were represented. Using a modified Delphi process, recommendations from 11 topic-specific working groups (WGs), 10 ad-hoc WGs and a WG dealing with the perspectives of older adults were reviewed and refined. The final recommendations were determined by voting. RECOMMENDATIONS all older adults should be advised on falls prevention and physical activity. Opportunistic case finding for falls risk is recommended for community-dwelling older adults. Those considered at high risk should be offered a comprehensive multifactorial falls risk assessment with a view to co-design and implement personalised multidomain interventions. Other recommendations cover details of assessment and intervention components and combinations, and recommendations for specific settings and populations. CONCLUSIONS the core set of recommendations provided will require flexible implementation strategies that consider both local context and resources.
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Affiliation(s)
- Manuel Montero-Odasso
- Gait and Brain Lab, Parkwood Institute, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
| | - Nathalie van der Velde
- Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health, Aging and Later Life, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Finbarr C Martin
- Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Mirko Petrovic
- Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Section of Geriatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Maw Pin Tan
- Centre for Innovation in Medical Engineering (CIME), Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
| | - Jesper Ryg
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
- Geriatric Research Unit, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Sara Aguilar-Navarro
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Neil B Alexander
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, University of Michigan; Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Healthcare System Geriatrics Research Education Clinical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Clemens Becker
- Department of Clinical Gerontology and Geriatric Rehabilitation, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
| | - Hubert Blain
- Department of Geriatrics, Montpellier University hospital and MUSE, Montpellier, France
| | - Robbie Bourke
- Department of Medical Gerontology Trinity College Dublin and Mercers Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Ian D Cameron
- John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research, Northern Sydney Local Health District and Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Department of Medicine (Neurology) and Neuroscience and Mental Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Richard Camicioli
- Department of Medicine (Neurology), Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
| | - Lindy Clemson
- Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
| | - Jacqueline Close
- Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Prince of Wales Clinical School, Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Kim Delbaere
- Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
| | - Leilei Duan
- National Centre for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
| | - Gustavo Duque
- Research Institute of the McGill University HealthCentre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - Suzanne M Dyer
- Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
| | - Ellen Freiberger
- Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute for Biomedicine of Aging, Nürnberg, Germany
| | - David A Ganz
- Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Fernando Gómez
- Research Group on Geriatrics and Gerontology, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Collaborative Center, University Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
| | - Jeffrey M Hausdorff
- Center for the Study of Movement, Cognition and Mobility, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Physical Therapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - David B Hogan
- Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging, O’BrienInstitute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
| | - Susan M W Hunter
- School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Elborn College, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
| | - Jose R Jauregui
- Ageing Biology Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Nellie Kamkar
- Gait and Brain Lab, Parkwood Institute, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Gerontology Trinity College Dublin and Mercers Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Sarah E Lamb
- Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Mireille Gillings Professor of Health Innovation, Medical School Building, Exeter, England, UK
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Teresa Liu-Ambrose
- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Center for Hip Health and Mobility, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK
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- Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, McGill University Health Center, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- University College London, London, England, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Geriatric Medicine & Neurology Fellowship, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán”. Mexico City, Mexico
- Geriatric Medicine Program, Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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- Healthscope and Academic and Research Collaborative in Health (ARCH), La Trobe University, Australia
| | - Alice Nieuwboer
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Neurorehabilitation Research Group (eNRGy), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Monica R Perracini
- Master’s and Doctoral programs in Physical Therapy, Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo (UNICID), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - Frederico Pieruccini-Faria
- Gait and Brain Lab, Parkwood Institute, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Mackay Institute of Research and Innovation, Mackay Hospital and Health Service, Mackay, QLD, Australia
| | - Catherine Said
- Western Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS), The University of Melbourne and Western Health, St Albans, VIC, Australia
- Melbourne School of Health Sciences The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Catherine Sherrington
- Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Health and Life Sciences, Research Centre for Health (ReaCH), Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Occupational Therapy, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Program in Occupational Therapy, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M13 9WL, UK
| | - Bruce R Troen
- Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo; Research Service, Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Human-Centred Design, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
- Section of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
- Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
| | - Ellen Vlaeyen
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The British Geriatrics Society, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, England, UK
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