from Part II - Strategies for Prevention
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2021
As indicated in Chapter 4, there is good evidence that important visual functions including poor contrast sensitivity, deficient depth perception, and visual field loss increase the risk of falls and fall-related fractures in older people. Some visual impairments are amenable to intervention by surgery or refractive correction, and accordingly several randomized controlled trials have investigated visual interventions as a fall prevention strategy. This chapter provides summaries of these trial findings as well as a complementary study that evaluated the roles of exercise and home safety programmes for older people with visual impairment.
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