The use of the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management’s risk stratification algorithm in predicting falls in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Abstract

the implementation of the WGFPM risk assessment algorithm was feasible in TILDA and successfully differentiated those at greater risk of falling. The high number of participants classified in the low-risk group and lack of differences between the intermediate and high-risk groups may be related to the non-clinical nature of the TILDA sample, and further study in other samples is warranted.