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Comment
. 2023 Oct 2;52(10):afad162.
doi: 10.1093/ageing/afad162.

Fall risk stratification of community-living older people. Commentary on the world guidelines for fall prevention and management

Topic Group on “Falls among the elderly” of the ITU/WHO Focus Group “Artificial Intelligence for Health”; Jose Albites-Sanabria  1   2 , Barry R Greene  3 , Killian McManus  3   4 , Luca Palmerini  1   5 , Pierpaolo Palumbo  1 , Inês Sousa  6 , Kimberley S van Schooten  7   8 , Eva Weicken  9 , Markus Wenzel  9
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Fall risk stratification of community-living older people. Commentary on the world guidelines for fall prevention and management

Topic Group on “Falls among the elderly” of the ITU/WHO Focus Group “Artificial Intelligence for Health” et al. Age Ageing. .

Abstract

The Task Force on Global Guidelines for Falls in Older Adults has put forward a fall risk stratification tool for community-dwelling older adults. This tool takes the form of a flowchart and is based on expert opinion and evidence. It divides the population into three risk categories and recommends specific preventive interventions or treatments for each category. In this commentary, we share our insights on the design, validation, usability and potential impact of this fall risk stratification tool with the aim of guiding future research.

Keywords: Falls; Guidelines; Older people; Prediction; Risk; Stratification.

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Conflict of interest statement

BRG and KMcM are employees of Linus Health and declare the ownership of share or share options in Linus Health Inc. LP is the co-founder and own shares of mHealth Technologies srl (https://mhealthtechnologies.it/). PP hold copyrights on FRAT-up software code, for fall risk assessment in older adults. KS holds copyrights on software code for fall risk assessment in older adults.

Comment on

  • World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative.
    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; Task Force on Global Guidelines for Falls in Older Adults. Montero-Odasso M, et al. Age Ageing. 2022 Sep 2;51(9):afac205. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac205. Age Ageing. 2022. PMID: 36178003 Free PMC article.

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