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FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW
The implications of falls of middle-aged adults (40-64 years) on falling in late life (65+) have not received much attention. The patterns of falling over the lifespan require more research. The purpose of this scoping literature review was to answer: What is known about falls occurring in mid-life?...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6845230/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3156 |
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author | Zecevic, Aleksandra Bozzo, Daniella Stirling, Alison Gagne, Helene |
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description | The implications of falls of middle-aged adults (40-64 years) on falling in late life (65+) have not received much attention. The patterns of falling over the lifespan require more research. The purpose of this scoping literature review was to answer: What is known about falls occurring in mid-life? and How falls in mid-life relate to falling over the adult lifespan? A six-stage scoping literature review framework by Levac et al. (2010) was followed. A total of 5,136 titles were identified in CINAHL, EMBASE and MEDLINE using MeSH terms for accidental fall, middle-aged and longitudinal studies. Inclusion/exclusion criteria narrowed the search to 30 full-text research articles and nine gray literature sources that were charted. Literature on falls in mid-life produced five discrete themes: two distinct populations of fallers, prevalence rates, fall-related injuries, causes of falls, and risk factors for falling. The two groups of fallers were the general population (falls prevalence 8.7-35.8%) and the special population of mid-life adults living with chronic health conditions (falls prevalence 26% for diabetes and 32.3% intellectual disabilities). Middle-aged adults had a higher proportion of injurious falls (11.5-30%) compared to older adults and extrinsic risk factors were the most frequent causes of falling (83.3%). For special populations, the risk of falls was frequently attributed to intrinsic factors. In conclusion, falls in mid-life require further exploration to establish patterns over the adult lifespan, determine influence of chronic diseases, establish clear fall incidences and risk factors, and determine if current falls prevention interventions are appropriate for mid-life adults. |
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spelling | pubmed-68452302019-11-18 FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW Zecevic, Aleksandra Bozzo, Daniella Stirling, Alison Gagne, Helene Innov Aging Session Lb935 (Late Breaking Poster) The implications of falls of middle-aged adults (40-64 years) on falling in late life (65+) have not received much attention. The patterns of falling over the lifespan require more research. The purpose of this scoping literature review was to answer: What is known about falls occurring in mid-life? and How falls in mid-life relate to falling over the adult lifespan? A six-stage scoping literature review framework by Levac et al. (2010) was followed. A total of 5,136 titles were identified in CINAHL, EMBASE and MEDLINE using MeSH terms for accidental fall, middle-aged and longitudinal studies. Inclusion/exclusion criteria narrowed the search to 30 full-text research articles and nine gray literature sources that were charted. Literature on falls in mid-life produced five discrete themes: two distinct populations of fallers, prevalence rates, fall-related injuries, causes of falls, and risk factors for falling. The two groups of fallers were the general population (falls prevalence 8.7-35.8%) and the special population of mid-life adults living with chronic health conditions (falls prevalence 26% for diabetes and 32.3% intellectual disabilities). Middle-aged adults had a higher proportion of injurious falls (11.5-30%) compared to older adults and extrinsic risk factors were the most frequent causes of falling (83.3%). For special populations, the risk of falls was frequently attributed to intrinsic factors. In conclusion, falls in mid-life require further exploration to establish patterns over the adult lifespan, determine influence of chronic diseases, establish clear fall incidences and risk factors, and determine if current falls prevention interventions are appropriate for mid-life adults. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6845230/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3156 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session Lb935 (Late Breaking Poster) Zecevic, Aleksandra Bozzo, Daniella Stirling, Alison Gagne, Helene FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW |
title | FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW |
title_full | FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW |
title_fullStr | FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW |
title_full_unstemmed | FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW |
title_short | FALLS IN MID-LIFE: A SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW |
title_sort | falls in mid-life: a scoping literature review |
topic | Session Lb935 (Late Breaking Poster) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6845230/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3156 |
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