A qualitative review of balance and strength performance in healthy older adults : impact for testing and training
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Ein qualitativer Überblick zur Gleichgewichts- und Kraftfähigkeit bei gesunden älteren Erwachsenen : Einfluss für Test und Training |
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Autor: | Granacher, Urs; Mühlbauer, Thomas; Gruber, Markus |
Erschienen in: | Journal of aging research |
Veröffentlicht: | 2012, Artikelnr.: 708905, 16 S., Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 2090-2212 |
DOI: | 10.1155/2012/708905 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201406005528 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
A continuously greying society is confronted with specific age-related health problems (e.g., increased fall incidence/injury rate) that threaten both the quality of life of fall-prone individuals as well as the long-term sustainability of the public health care system due to high treatment costs of fall-related injuries (e.g., femoral neck fracture). Thus, intense research efforts are needed from interdisciplinary fields (e.g., geriatrics, neurology, and exercise science) to (a) elucidate neuromuscular fall-risk factors, (b) develop and apply adequate fall-risk assessment tools that can be administered in clinical practice, and (c) develop and design effective intervention programs that have the potential to counteract a large number of fall-risk factors by ultimately reducing the number of falls in the healthy elderly. This paper makes an effort to present the above-raised research topics in order to provide clinicians, therapists, and practitioners with the current state-of-the-art information. Verf.-Referat