Fall prevention programs for community-dwelling older people should primarily target a multifactorial intervention rather than exercise as a single intervention

摘要

The weight of current evidence shows that multifacto-rial interventions (a combination of interventions determined by individual assessment) reduce fall rates in community-dwelling older people. However, there is lingering uncertainty as to the circumstances under which multifactorial interventions are most effective because of of the considerable heterogeneity in the results of individual trials. There is also a suggestion that multifactorial interventions are no more effective than single interventions such as exercise.