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July 14, 2025Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationOpen Access

Risk Factors for Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Umbrella Review

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SSStéphanie SaundersCDCassandra D’AmoreQHQiukui Hao

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Overview

Umbrella review synthesizes fall risk factors in community-dwelling older adults, indicating mobility and cognitive issues as key predictors.

Key Points

  • Mobility-related risk factors for falls are significant, accounting for 40% of examined relationships.
  • Clinical factors like executive function and frailty emerged as strong predictors, with significance rates up to 100%.
  • Systematic review included 57 reviews analyzing 29 distinct risk factors for falls in older adults.
  • Findings underscore the need to explore psychosocial and environmental risk factors to better understand falls.

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Saunders et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a02b6e6551bb0af8cc286https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2025.105765
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