Effect of Home Exercise on Reducing Falls

Launched by CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG · Jul 16, 2018

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ClinConnect Summary

This will be a single-blinded randomized controlled trial. The subjects will be randomly assigned to the LiFE exercise plus home safety assessment group, or the control group by a computer program operated by an independent researcher. This study conforms to the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • aged 60 or older
• • able to ambulate with a Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) score ≥ 3
• • able to walk for ≥ 10 meters
• • history of falls in the past 12 months
• • living in the community
• • without MCI or dementia according to the 5-minute Montreal Cognitive assessment
• • have a moderate fall risk or above as assessed by the Physiological Profile Assessment
• • able to understand Chinese.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • blindness
• • diagnosis of mental disorders (e.g., severe depression, schizophrenia)
• • any contraindications to exercise (e.g. unstable angina).