Effect of Home Exercise on Reducing Falls
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This proposed randomized controlled trial aims to study the long-term compliance of the LiFE program and its combined effects with a home safety visit on fall prevention in community-dwelling older fallers.
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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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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).
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108 participants in 2 patient groups
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