Environmental and behavioural interventions for reducing physical activity limitation and preventing falls in older people with visual impairment.

CONCLUSIONS: There is no evidence of effect for most of the environmental or behavioral interventions studied for reducing physical activity limitation and preventing falls in visually impaired older people. The certainty of evidence is generally low due to poor methodological quality and heterogeneous outcome measurements. Researchers should form a consensus to adopt standard ways of measuring physical activity and falls reliably in older people with visual impairments. Fall prevention trials should plan to use objectively measured or self-reported physical activity as outcome measures of reduced activity limitation. Future research should evaluate the acceptability and applicability of interventions, and use validated questionnaires to assess the adherence to rehabilitative strategies and performance during activities of daily living.
PMID: 32885841 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - September 2, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: E JY, Li T, McInally L, Thomson K, Shahani U, Gray L, Howe TE, Skelton DA Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research