Community-based group exercise improves balance and reduces falls in at-risk older people: a randomised controlled trial - Author Abstract

Age and Ageing, July, 2003 by Anne Barnett, Ben Smith, Stephen R. Lord, Mandy Williams, Adrian Baumand

Background: recent studies have found that moderate intensity exercise is an effective intervention strategy for preventing falls in older people. However, research is required to determine whether supervised group exercise programmes, conducted in community settings with at-risk older people referred by their health care practitioner are also effective in improving physical functioning and preventing falls in this group.