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Fall Prevention in Community-Dwelling Adults with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Abstract
Background: Cognitive impairment (CI) increases an individual’s risk of falls due to the role cognition plays in gait control. Older adults with dementia fall 2-3 times more than cognitively healthy older adults and 60-80% of people with dementia fall annually. Practitioners require evidence-based fall prevention best practices to reduce the risk of falls in cognitively impaired adults living in the community.
Methods: We conducted a …
Authors
Racey M; Markle-Reid M; Fitzpatrick-Lewis D; Ali MU; Gagné H; Hunter S; Ploeg J; Sztramko R; Harrison L; Lewis R
DOI
10.21203/rs.3.rs-690152/v1
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