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    Studies of balance in older people
    Hill, Keith David ( 1997-07)
    Balance dysfunction and the resultant falls and injuries, loss of confidence, alternations lifestyle and the overall costs are a major problem to older people in Australia. The studies in this thesis investigate discrete but inter-linked aspects of the problems of falls among community dwelling older people, including measurement issues, prediction of fallers, types of dysfunction related to clinical diagnoses, and the effect of multidisciplinary intervention. Preliminary studies of older people from both healthy and clinical samples identified high retest reliability for the dynamic balance tests on the Chattecx Balance System, high retest reliability and concurrent validity for a new clinical test of dynamic standing balance, and high retest reliability and predictive validity for an expanded scale to measure fear of falling. (For complete abstract open document)