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Researchers have evaluated a wide range of interventions to prevent falls in older people with a wide range of outcomes. Two randomized studies illustrate this issue.
Swiss researchers enrolled 134 community-dwelling older people (mean age, 76) at elevated risk for falling to evaluate the effects of a music-based program that involved progressively more difficult multitask exercises. For 6 months, intervention patients attended weekly 1-hour sessions of music and movement training; delayed-intervention control patients were asked to continue their usual activities. During the second 6 months of the study, assignments were reversed. Overall attendance in the exercise program was 78% in both groups. During the first 6 months, the intervention …