A post-hospital home exercise program improved mobility but increased falls in older people: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Home exercise can prevent falls in the general older community but its impact in people recently discharged from hospital is not known. The study aimed to investigate the effects of a home-based exercise program on falls and mobility among people recently discharged from hospital.

Methods And Findings: This randomised controlled trial (ACTRN12607000563460) was conducted among 340 older people.

A simple tool predicted probability of falling after aged care inpatient rehabilitation.

Objective: To develop and internally validate a falls prediction tool for people being discharged from inpatient aged care rehabilitation.

Study Design And Setting: Prospective cohort study. Possible predictors of falls were collected for 442 aged care rehabilitation inpatients at two hospitals.

Development of a tool for prediction of falls in rehabilitation settings (Predict_FIRST): a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To develop and internally validate a simple falls prediction tool for rehabilitation settings.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Participants: A total of 533 inpatients.

Mobility-related disability three months after aged care rehabilitation can be predicted with a simple tool: an observational study.

Questions: What is the prevalence of mobility-related disability 3 months after discharge from inpatient aged care rehabilitation? Can a clinical tool predict which individuals will experience mobility-related disability 3 months after discharge?

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Participants: 442 patients newly admitted to two large inpatient rehabilitation units.

Outcome Measures: Predictors were co-morbidities; pre-admission mobility; and discharge cognition, pain, vision, muscle strength, and mobility.

Minimising disability and falls in older people through a post-hospital exercise program: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation.

Background: Disability and falls are particularly common among older people who have recently been hospitalised. There is evidence that disability severity and fall rates can be reduced by well-designed exercise interventions. However, the potential for exercise to have these benefits in older people who have spent time in hospital has not been established.

Mobility training after hip fracture: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: to compare the effects of two different exercise programmes after hip fracture.

Design: assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial.

Setting: hospital rehabilitation units, with continued intervention at home.